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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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 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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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

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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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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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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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