Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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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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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

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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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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.

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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'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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

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