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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.

— Lucille Ball Love, Lucy (1996)

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

Love, Lucy (1996)

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

Love, Lucy (1996)

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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

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.

Love, Lucy (1996)

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