Mae West Quotes
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I believed I was invincible.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
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There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.
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Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
