Lucille Ball was born one hundred years ago today.
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Lucille Ball was born one hundred years ago today.
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[“Maurice Chevalier, Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz (L-R) during rehearsal for the TV show I Love Lucy.“ Photograph by Leonard McCombe. Hollywood, California, August 1959. From the Life Photo Archive.]
Lucille Ball was born one hundred years ago today.
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Lucille Ball was born one hundred years ago today.
Michael Leddy
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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comments: 2
Terrific photo.
Great actress.
I remember laughing so hard watching those old shows.
I laughed so hard all weekend.
Google had a great selection of clips on the home page.
These are days when we all need a bit of harmless laughter...
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