I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.


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A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
JAMES MONROE
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
MARILYN MONROE
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling pass...
MARILYN MONROE
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
MARILYN MONROE
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...
MARILYN MONROE
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You me...
BILL MONROE
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy...
MARILYN MONROE
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
MARILYN MONROE
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for you...
MARILYN MONROE
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sittin...
MARILYN MONROE
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasti...
MARILYN MONROE
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
MARILYN MONROE
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
MARILYN MONROE
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...
MARILYN MONROE
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
MARILYN MONROE
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square ...
MARILYN MONROE
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - ...
MARILYN MONROE
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturer...
MARILYN MONROE
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few rema...
MARILYN MONROE
I restore myself when I'm alone.
MARILYN MONROE
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
MARILYN MONROE
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
MARILYN MONROE
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel li...
MARILYN MONROE
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be mai...
JAMES MONROE
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
MARILYN MONROE
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
JAMES MONROE
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at t...
MARILYN MONROE
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they'...
MARILYN MONROE
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
MARILYN MONROE
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
MARILYN MONROE
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
MARILYN MONROE
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's al...
MARILYN MONROE