Marilyn Quotes
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.
I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.
Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
I usually wake up far after breakfast. So I have no other choice but to go straight to dinner.
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.