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Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. -- Suzi Quatro
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. -- Indira Gandhi
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge. -- Dennis Miller
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life. -- Francoise Sagan
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. -- Frederick Sanger
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' -- Henry Rollins
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us. -- Lily Koppel
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it. -- Michio Kaku
So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. -- Chelsea Peretti
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford. -- Jane Birkin
I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. -- Grace Jones
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend. -- Joan Crawford
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door. -- Joan Crawford
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'. -- Joan Rivers
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!' -- Joan Crawford
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Now I know how Joan of Arc felt. -- Steven Morrissey
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style. -- Charles Bukowski
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. -- Isaac Mizrahi
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress. -- Bette Davis
As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress. -- Nicholas Ray
I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire -- Bette Davis
A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure. -- Trinny Woodall
Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George. -- Holly Johnson
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around. -- Robert B. Parker
Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era. -- Cheyenne Jackson
I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack. -- Amanda Peet
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. -- Bette Davis
They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it. -- Gracie Allen
Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story -- Norman Chad
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. -- Rita Mae Brown
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. -- Judy Gold
I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God. -- Amber Tamblyn
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. -- Charles Bukowski
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. -- Sister Parish
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room. -- Jay Mohr
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress. -- Robert Wagner
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it. -- Mark Twain
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. -- Ted Shackelford
The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when. -- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good. -- Bette Davis
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. -- Mark Twain
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history. -- Kathryn Harrison
I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. -- Amy Schumer
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre. -- Keith Johnstone
Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist. -- Kate Clinton
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be. -- Mercedes McCambridge
There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money. -- Sterling Hayden
Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work. -- Christina Hendricks
A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell. -- Meghan Daum
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. -- E. Jean Carroll
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt... -- Steven Morrissey
I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly. -- Julie Klausner
I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back! -- Christina Hendricks
You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. -- Frank Stella
I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring. -- Christina Hendricks
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality. -- Judy Parfitt
I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews. -- St. Vincent
I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better. -- John Darnielle
To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement. -- Anthony Newley
I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue. -- Greg Graffin
I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career. -- Janis Ian
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. -- Anne Lamott
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe). -- Manny Farber
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. -- Evelyn Keyes
It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles. -- Roger Ebert
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other. -- Kathryn Harrison
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. -- Caitlin Flanagan
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. -- Paris Hilton
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. -- Rudyard Kipling
2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months. -- Aaron Lazar
Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens. -- Craig Finn
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant. -- Boy George
General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end. -- Harold Clurman
To really love Joan Didionâ??to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcaseâ??you have to be female. -- Caitlin Flanagan
The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him. -- Graham Moore
Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo. -- Boy George
The Great Walk to Beijing was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer thrivers, including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. -- Olivia Newton-John
I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations. -- Tom Shales
Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming. -- Jennifer Worth
I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received. -- Olivia De Havilland
I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years. -- Roy Haylock
That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children. -- Dwayne Hickman
[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way. -- Whit Stillman
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. -- Fred Saberhagen
[Joan Rivers] is fantastic. AND SHE'S 80! There's no 80-year-old pitcher. If you're a running back and you're 28 they're like, "Oh, here he goes, turning the corner on his career, he's on the downswing..." -- Jay Mohr
The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. -- Olivia Newton-John
As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie. -- Fergie
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! -- Ellen Burstyn
When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched. -- Judy Gold
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die. -- Tina Fey
I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help. -- Amber Tamblyn
I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law. -- Ronee Blakley
In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris. -- Larry Gatlin
I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me. -- Kristen Stewart
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts. -- Jill Stein
I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers! -- Gwyneth Paltrow
I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else. -- Nathalie Sarraute
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word. -- Maeve Binchy
In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light. -- Alice Walker
I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier. -- Grace Kelly
By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years. -- Kathryn Harrison
As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having seen students there who looked a lot like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. -- Susan Schneider
I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both. -- Jackie Collins
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable. -- Christopher Hitchens
The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state. -- Allen Ginsberg
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink. -- Robert B. Parker
Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks. -- Kathryn Harrison
It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense. -- James Gray
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There's clear and substantiated proof they were real. -- Meg Cabot
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. -- Bea Arthur

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