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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
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Mary Jane West
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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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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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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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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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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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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Never ask a man where he has been.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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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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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
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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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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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