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What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.


Joan D. Vinge

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JOAN KIRNER Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go th...
JOAN JETT The 325-foot Seagram Tower is the most southerly and closest to the Canadian falls and also affords ...
JOAN LINGARD I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. T...
JOAN CUSACK It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
JOAN CRAWFORD I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...
JOAN DIDION We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
JOAN BLADES All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
JOAN CHEN Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ...
JOAN CUSACK We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds ...
JOAN RIVERS I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the wor...
JOAN CUSACK Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'...
JOAN JETT My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times...
JOAN SMALLS A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
JOAN LUNDEN The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS