I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

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

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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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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