The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.


Marilyn Monroe

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The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
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Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
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Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
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I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
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I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
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Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you d...
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BILLY WILDER
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo...
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The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time ...
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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
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We knew coming into the game that their defense was going to be right up into our face. You can't le...
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher, or the Christian by staring in his eyes as...
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I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON
Eyes are the mirror of your mind. Whatever you see, you see in your reflection.
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The tug of the lodestar slowly grew stronger until, with an abrupt quantum jump, it was a physical f...
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The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
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When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.
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You can shed tears that she is gone,
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You can close ...
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Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.
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MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . ....
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I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystiqu...
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All you have to do is close your eyes, lay back or sit back and just feel the music.
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"Ask a surgeon to find courage IN YOU with a scalpel. How long will he look until he gives up? Yet, ...
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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...
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ANTONIO TABUCCHI
I just want to be wonderful.
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They’re all smiling. Whether you’re a teenager or in your 80s, everyone can have fun.
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Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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MARILYN MONROE
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
MARILYN MONROE
I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot...
MARILYN MONROE
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
MARILYN MONROE
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
MARILYN MONROE
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE
I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE
I'm going to be a great movie star some day.
MARILYN MONROE
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutl...
MARILYN MONROE
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE
...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...
MARILYN MONROE
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monoton...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
MARILYN MONROE
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most importa...
MARILYN MONROE
(Joe) You’ve never heard such cheering,
MARILYN MONROE
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I do...
MARILYN MONROE
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd ...
MARILYN MONROE
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will r...
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...
MARILYN MONROE