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" Ability is of little account without opportunity. "
Without
Opportunity
Ability
" A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. "
Man
Woman
May
" How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. "
Born
Divorce
Lawyers
" How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.' "
Comedy
Love
Pride
" I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. "
Better
Work
Love
" I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke. "
Jokes
Me
Never
" I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way. "
Hope
Myself
Live
" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. "
Things
Wisdom
Rather
" I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way. "
Crazy
Attention
Become
" If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. "
Person
More
Done
" 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. "
Life
My Life
Same
" I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. "
Yourself
Religion
Love Yourself
" 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. "
Happy
Laughter
Value
" I'm not funny. What I am is brave. "
Humor
Am
Brave
" I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble. "
You
Confidence
Challenge
" 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. "
Scared
Grow
Together
" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Wisdom
Life
Hard
" I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. "
Talent
System
Regret
" I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. "
More
Important
Think
" It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. "
Being
Recognize
Start
" I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away. "
Seen
He
Away
" I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children. "
Pictures
Stay
Out
" 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. "
Business
You
Try
" Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. "
World
Yourself
Love
" 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. "
People
Hard Work
Me
" Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. "
Redhead
Fall
Gorgeous
" 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. "
Faith
Life
Yourself
" The more things you do, the more you can do. "
Motivational
You
Things
" The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. "
Young
Lie
Eat
" TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children. "
Children
Me
Road
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