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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
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Playwright
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Singer
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Brooklyn
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Live close, visit often.
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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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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
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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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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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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
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The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
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