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I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
Actress
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Television Producer
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London
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Joan Henrietta Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins
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And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.
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And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
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And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
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