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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
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Comedian
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Playwright
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
Flattery
Everywhere

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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself
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Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
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Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said I do, and I also wash and iron them. I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
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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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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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Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
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It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
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Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
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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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Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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