Mae West Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
