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Authors
Lucille Ball
American
Comedian
About the author
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Children
#Home
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Wisdom
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Being
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Love
#World
#First
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Love
#Man
The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Age
#Lie
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Want
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Interest
#Women
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#People
#Work
#Opportunity
#Hard work
#Luck
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Funny
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.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Value
#Laughter
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Regret
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Ability
#Opportunity
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Love
#Will
#Business
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Talent
#Regret
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Love
#First
#Religion
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,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Failure
#Eyes
#Hate
#Divorce
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Love
#Work
#Fact
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Love
#Mistakes
#Lawyers
#Profit
#Divorce
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Children
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.
Lucille Ball,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Faith
#Optimism