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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball
Age: 77 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 6
Died: 1989
Died: April 26
Comedian
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Lucy Ball
Lucille Desiree Ball
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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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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I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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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.
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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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I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
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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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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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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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