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When we lived within six blocks, Aunt Sarah or Aunt Mary knew all about the boy who you were having this blind date or this first date with. So we knew all about the boy.


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RACHEL JOYCE On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag...
RACHEL JOYCE I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I ...
JOYCE MEYER But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.
RACHEL JOYCE It was not a life, if lived without love.
RACHEL JOYCE Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being...
JOYCE GIRAUD Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, ...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.
JOYCE GIRAUD My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell ev...
JOYCE GIRAUD I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were li...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over C...
JOYCE GIRAUD Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful...
JOYCE GIRAUD In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
JOYCE GIRAUD I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderfu...
JOYCE GIRAUD I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we b...
JOYCE GIRAUD I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more vol...
JOYCE GIRAUD In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'past...
JOYCE GIRAUD My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation....
JOYCE GIRAUD 'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a rep...
JOYCE GIRAUD I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I creat...
JOYCE GIRAUD I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My o...
JOYCE GIRAUD Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.
JOYCE GIRAUD I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies,...
JOYCE GIRAUD I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
JOYCE GIRAUD I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born...
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