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

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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

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

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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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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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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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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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