"I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep."
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"For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit."
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"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it."
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"Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met."
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"It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd."
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"A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you."
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"I restore myself when I'm alone."
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"I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen."
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"My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."
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"In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?"
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"Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day."
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"Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn."
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"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."
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"At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox."
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"It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all."
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"all girls are beautiful in their own way"
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"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."
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"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."
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"Sisters make the best friends in the world."
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"I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love."
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