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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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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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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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