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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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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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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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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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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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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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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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

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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. Lucille Ball

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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