Mae West Quotes
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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There are a lot of people that got short this market.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
