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"32 Lucille Ball Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 August 1911. Died: 26 April 1989 | Actress | Comedian | Model |

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.

About Afraid Anything Else
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Able Being Happy Makes
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Ability Account Little Opportunity
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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.

Busy Discouraged Faith Get
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Ask Busy Busy Person Done
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Appreciative Because Had No Talent
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Am Brave Funny I Am
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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.

Anything Done Else Everything
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Entitled Every Every Man Fall
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Close Everything Hand Like
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Children Home Leave More
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

About Age Eat Honestly
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The more things you do, the more you can do.
More Can Things You
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Come Good Good Things Hard
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Done Rather Regret Than
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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Cannot I Think Important Knowing
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Else Everyday Everything Everything Else
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Born Decided Divorce How
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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.

Am Audience Better Dead
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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.

Been Divorce Eyes Failure
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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.

Another Business Foolish Get
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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.

Because Been Brought Happy
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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.

Big Children Everything Grow
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Afraid Been Bit Hurts
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A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Age Bright Correctly Guesses
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I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

Attention Become Bid Crazy
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I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Anticipate Challenge Come Confidence
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How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

Comedy How I Love I Love Lucy
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TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Army Band Been Children
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Anecdotes Happened How I Can
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I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

Children Could Get Home
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Lucille Ball Quotes & Sayings