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Marilyn Monroe1926–1962

When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Marilyn Monroe on envy

Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp

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