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BILLY WILDER What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
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ELLEN WONG The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one li...
LAURA BUSH What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mo...
LISA EDELSTEIN You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig...
KIM DOTCOM A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
JUVENAL I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'...
KATRINA KAIF If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo...
NICK FLYNN My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'l...
ABEL FERRARA If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have int...
JIM BROWN If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha...
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DAVID CHASE I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw gro...
MIKE SINGLETARY I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
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MARILYN MANSON Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'...
BEN KATCHOR Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don&...
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TIMOTHY FERRISS I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if thos...
MIKE SINGLETARY What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just ...
JOE CARNAHAN I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and...
SRIKUMAR RAO I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe...
EVELYN GLENNIE If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
CANDY CROWLEY The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that some...
HUMPHREY LYTTELTON I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. I...
GLENN BECK From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect...
AVRIL LAVIGNE I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous w...
EDDIE VEDDER Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
EUGENE SHVIDLER I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.
STEPHEN MOYER I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c...
ELLEN DEGENERES My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb...
IRWIN ROSE Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day...
AUBREY PEEPLES The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, ...
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NORMAN LEAR I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don'...
JOHN SHELTON REED I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. I...
JONATHAN ANDERSON One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a pl...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#...
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ERYKAH BADU I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to...
RACHEL KELLER I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'...
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CAM In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't sa...
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MAE WHITMAN You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's imm...
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MARILYN MONROE I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times ha...
MARILYN MONROE Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love, listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.
MARILYN MONROE Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I hav...
MARILYN MONROE It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for ...
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot
MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
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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