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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Perfectionism
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Perfectionist
Funny
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Anything
Witty
Slowly
Excellence
Humorous
Perfection

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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 have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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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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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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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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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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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.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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Never ask a man where he has been.
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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