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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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.

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

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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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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

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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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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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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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