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JOAN DIDION My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
JOAN DIDION I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
JOAN RIVERS Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
JOAN RIVERS Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
JOAN ARMATRADING I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it...
JOAN COLLINS When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusia...
JOAN DIDION I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done ...
JOAN RIVERS My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
JOAN CUSACK Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l...
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