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I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

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Joan Jett
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Joan Marie Larkin
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Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
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Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.
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Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
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Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
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I know music is subjective.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
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Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?
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We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
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I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.
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Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.
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Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
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Being the first is kind of dirty, and it's great
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When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.
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A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.
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Well before I was in a band, I wanted to be everything from a vet, an astronaut, an archeologist was a big one. It could be very wide-ranging because I had a lot of different interests including music so I'm very happy where I wound up.
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.
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