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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.
Mae West
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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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