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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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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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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.
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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 meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.
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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
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