Mae West Quotes
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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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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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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
