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Fabulous

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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter

"Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo."

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Jean Baudrillard Philosopher, Sociologist
Fabulous

"It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous."

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Stacy London Television Personality
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"You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."

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Al Murray Comedian, Actor
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"Things inspiring me - good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice... by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather than does pyrotechnics... and people playing really musically. Music is endlessly fascinating."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible."

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous."

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Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter
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"Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen."

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Robert Wright Author
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"Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated."

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