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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Mae West
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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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Live close, visit often.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.
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