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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

One of the most enduring sex symbols of our time, Marilyn Monroe's career didn't take off until she had made dozen's of B-movies, playing the stereotypical dumb blond. It wasn't until her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes followed soon after by How to Marry a Millionaire that Marilyn gained notoriety. Managing her own career, she was never able to break out of comedic roles, though she long…

Date of Birth: June 01, 1926
Date of Death: August 05, 1962
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left." — Marilyn Monroe
As quoted in The Virgin Memoirs: Getting Past the Past, (2011) pg. 139 Add Category or Author

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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." — Marilyn Monroe
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"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on." — Marilyn Monroe
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"A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself." — Marilyn Monroe
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"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." — Marilyn Monroe
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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." — Marilyn Monroe
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"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos." — Marilyn Monroe
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"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring." — Marilyn Monroe
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"It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since." — Marilyn Monroe
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"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, 'there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'" — Marilyn Monroe
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"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle." — Marilyn Monroe
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"I love to do the things the censors won't pass." — Marilyn Monroe
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"Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives." — Marilyn Monroe
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten." — Marilyn Monroe
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"A career is born in public, talent in privacy." — Marilyn Monroe
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"Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work." — Marilyn Monroe
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