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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
Jane West
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The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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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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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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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
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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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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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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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