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If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.


Samuel West

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CORNEL WEST My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform ...
REBECCA WEST There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it wa...
WALT WEST Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of ...
REBECCA WEST I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
MAE WEST