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I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

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Joan Collins
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 23
Actress
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
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London
England
Joan Henrietta Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins
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Well I've written four beauty books as well.
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The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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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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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
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