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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Joan Jett

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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Joan Marie Larkin
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