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Joan Armatrading

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JOAN CHEN I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ...
JOAN JETT Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo...
JOAN RIVERS I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ...
JOAN COLLINS I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
JOAN COLLINS I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all ov...
JOAN RIVERS I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ...
JOAN COLLINS I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
JOAN JETT Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER