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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Lucille Ball

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Lucille Ball
Age: 77 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 6
Died: 1989
Died: April 26
Comedian
Comedienne
Film Actor
Film Studio Executive
Model
Singer
Television Actor
Television Producer
Jamestown
New York
Lucy Ball
Lucille Desiree Ball
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Without
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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
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remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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