The family that is left never considered what she was doing as historically significant. I had short notice and had to get ready in a hurry. I was so excited. It was like I was going to the Academy Awards.


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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
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
JOAN COLLINS
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
JOAN COLLINS
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 have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know...
JOAN COLLINS
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.
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