remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

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

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

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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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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

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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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