[Just before his death, O'Donoghue attended a book party in Manhattan with Marilyn Miller. As luminaries and celebrities drifted by, O'Donoghue asked his friend,] Why didn't I get this? Why did it turn out this way? ... Because, Michael, you didn't want it. You kicked it in the teeth.


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A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
MARILYN MONROE
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON
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
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algor...
MARILYN MINTER
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'...
MARILYN MANSON
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, bu...
MARILYN MANSON
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laborat...
MARILYN FERGUSON
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
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
MARILYN HACKER
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
MARILYN MANSON
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
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
MARILYN FRENCH
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of c...
MARILYN MANSON
Music is the strongest form of magic.
MARILYN MANSON
On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
MARILYN MANSON
I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
MARILYN MANSON
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
To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed ...
MARILYN MANSON
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good...
MARILYN FERGUSON
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