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The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
Actress
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London
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Joan Henrietta Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins
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There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.
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If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
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And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
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If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
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I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.
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I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.
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The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.
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The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.
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From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
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However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.
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What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England it's the same in America and all over Europe.
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I don't believe in dieting.
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I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.
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I have a lot of male friends.
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I don't use e-mail I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
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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 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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Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.
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I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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