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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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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.
Lucille Ball
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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.
Lucille Ball -
Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
Lucille Ball -
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball -
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Lucille Ball -
I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Lucille Ball -
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball -
When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
Lucille Ball -
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball -
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.
Lucille Ball -
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball -
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
Lucille Ball
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A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball -
I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.
Lucille Ball -
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball -
Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
Lucille Ball -
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Lucille Ball -
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Lucille Ball