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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
Jane West
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I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
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It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
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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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Never ask a man where he has been.
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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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