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Flattery will get you everywhere.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
Flattery
Everywhere

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Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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Live close, visit often.
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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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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
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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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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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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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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.
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The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.
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I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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