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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
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
Flattery
Everywhere

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Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
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Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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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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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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You are never too old to become younger!
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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