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My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.


Joan Collins

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JOAN ARMATRADING When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
JOAN DIDION So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes t...
JOAN JETT I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which ha...
JOAN MIRO I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e...
JOAN RIVERS Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b...
JOAN HALIFAX Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have h...
JOAN CUSACK I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
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.
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