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Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Marilyn Monroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962

Topics

Success Eyes Hate People Wish Envy

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

Jesse Metcalfe

Father Mother Together Man Back She

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Matthew Settle

Say Secret Clown Little Much Maybe

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

Steve Yzerman

Health Trying Healthy Exhausted Stay

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

Tony Greig

End New Personal Contract Asking

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Me Loved Dream Down Go Want

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Waiting Wings You Ahead Next Stay

When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.

Ron Johnson

Walk Door Feel You Always Open

When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he said no. I was a burnt-out litigation solicitor in my thirties, hating my life, and his cancer made me re-evaluate it all.

Michelle Paver

Life Father Me My Life Said Him

I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit.

Lucy Dacus

Live People Expectations Feel You

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Denis Villeneuve

People Ideas Ego Direction Better

I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.

Christopher Guest

Time People Me Long Long Time Level

We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.

Anohni

Environmental Capitalism Problems Oil