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The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.


Marilyn Minter

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MARILYN FRENCH I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times har...
MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she has...
MARILYN MONROE Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolute...
MARILYN MONROE One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to f...
MARILYN FRENCH Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So...
MARILYN MONROE A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bothe...
MARILYN HORNE What nearly everybody in my life
MARILYN MANSON Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.
MARILYN FERGUSON Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of th...
MARILYN FERGUSON Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging ...
MARILYN MONROE English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE 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