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If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

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Joan Rivers
Age: 81 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 8
Died: 2014
Died: September 4
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Brooklyn
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Joan Alexandra Molinsky
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Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time.
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My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Shelia had died at birth.
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Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.
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I have a million dollar figure ... but it's all loose change.
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I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.
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I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.
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I think we obviously need health care. Of course we need health care, but I think that it's gone too far the other way, and I don't understand it. It's gotten so complicated. The minute they made a deal with the drug companies, you know something isn't kosher here.
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I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
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Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.
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Can we talk?
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Everyone needs a facelift, except if you are from Brooklyn then you need a nose job !!!
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