Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
LUCILLE BALLI’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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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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.
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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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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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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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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.
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Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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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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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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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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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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