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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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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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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