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Marilyn Monroe

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MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
MARILYN MONROE A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I m...
JOSEPHINE BAKER [If Ryan left an indelible mark on the game, it was his] 46 ... like calling Marilyn Monroe just ano...
DOUG PLANK Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passi...
PETER DINKLAGE It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and pi...
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the in...
E.M. FORSTER Michelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so power...
MICHAEL MORGAN If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, resp...
ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, resp...
ROBERT SCHUMANN If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, resp...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned ...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the v...
AARON WEINSTEIN 'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the ...
AARON WEINSTEIN if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that ha...
CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
JOHN LUBBOCK An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH Uncle Albert fished in a canvas bag for bread, wine, cheese, and dried salami. The Beltraminis broke...
MARK T. SULLIVAN Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Maril...
NICHOLAS SAMSTAG Violin, has always been the instrument that hides a musical story full with harmonies and beautiful ...
MOHAMMAD HAKIM KHARBOTLI I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
DAVID NEWMAN You want to hear the violin burp. The violin can even sound like a monster. Isn't that cool?
MARK WOOD Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE She is one of the most sublime, profound artists in India as she brings years of playing on the viol...
KANNIKS KANNIKESWARAN It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
ALBERT EINSTEIN A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
ALBERT EINSTEIN They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a ...
JOHN CARLIN Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
BIRDY The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
HONORE DE BALZAC After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the...
PIET HEIN The violin sings.
JOSHUA BELL I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chi...
CASSANDRA CLARE What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do....
JOSHUA BELL He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious...
CASSANDRA CLARE Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
PATRICE LECONTE A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. ...
MARVIN MINSKY Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just play...
ANDREW BIRD Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
ANDRES SEGOVIA There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND I almost broke his legs when I jumped on his lap because I was so happy. I told him I didn't care wh...
JULIE STONE I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER Demi Eldar..., demi Eldar yang mereka bilang aku khianati..., aku akan mendapatkanmu lagi!!
K.A.Z. VIOLIN Ketika kau memiliki firasat buruk tentang kehilangan orang yang paling berharga, kau akan mencoba un...
K.A.Z. VIOLIN Di tempat paling dingin sekalipun... selalu ada cerita hangat,
K.A.Z. VIOLIN I tried to learn the violin for a while.
PETER WRIGHT It's an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita ...
CARMEN ELECTRA By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE …the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
VANESSA MAE Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you ...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I started the Fiddler's Hall of Fame in 1985 and I am running out of room. The fiddle is the most di...
BOB EVERHART The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas...
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH . . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, spli...
GIACOMO PUCCINI CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
AMBROSE BIERCE Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS A mother takes care of me+other, but a father takes care of his fat+her
MITEB KHANTASH ALQARNI I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...
MARILYN MONROE A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le sou...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can bel...
WYNTON MARSALIS The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
NICCOLO PAGANINI Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.
JIM FIEBIG I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
AMAR BOSE An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
CONRAD VEIDT I think that also is a draw. He has to live with that every day and yet he makes such beautiful musi...
DANIEL LARSON The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to ...
CHARLIE SIEM To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink...
BRUCE CROWN If you look at him, you would think he's 20-something. He takes care of his body ... look in his loc...
KEARY COLBERT It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? ...
CAROLINE SHAW Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON Give a girl the right shoes and she'll conquer the world.
ANONYMOUS Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered.
CLARA BOW Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring
S. J. PERELMAN I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca...
MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and litt...
MARILYN MONROE The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
MARILYN MONROE I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much ali...
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