Mae West Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I'm a dork!
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
