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Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
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Autobiographer
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Mary Jane West
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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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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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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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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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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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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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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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