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The curve is more powerful than the sword.

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
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Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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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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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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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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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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Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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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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