{"id":151,"date":"2011-08-06T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/lucille-ball-would-be-a-century-old-today\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:33:25","slug":"lucille-ball-would-be-a-century-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anne.myupcomingsite.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Ball Would be a Century Old Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>If Lucille Ball was alive today, she would be a century old. Born in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911, Ball went on to become\u00a0one of America’s most beloved comedic icons.<\/p>\n

She was pivotal in creating\u00a0the television series, I Love Lucy<\/em>. The show co-starred her then-husband, Desi Arnaz<\/a> and ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. But in the five decades since the show’s\u00a0ending, it has continued to\u00a0attract a new generation of fans through TV syndication and video sales globally.<\/p>\n

As Entertainment Weekly\u2019s<\/em> Adam Markowitz says in his \u201cPop Watch\u201d blog tribute <\/a>today featuring some of her more famous I Love Lucy<\/em> clips, \u201cThere isn\u2019t much new to be said about Ball\u2019s legacy: How she defined the modern sitcom, how she paved the way for every female comedy legend \u2014 from Mary Tyler Moore to Roseanne to Tina Fey \u2014 who came after her, how her show\u2019s popularity has outlasted all its 1950s rivals (Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners<\/em>) and is still a daytime TV staple around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Chautauqua County Visitors Bureau.<\/span><\/span>
\nLucy and Desi impersonators.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

USA Today<\/em><\/a> reports that her hometown\u2019s annual Lucy Fest<\/a>\u00a0this weekend will attempt to set a Guinness World Record<\/a> for the most people dressed as the comedienne in honor of her 100th birthday.<\/p>\n

I am devoting today\u2019s blog post to her words — quotes she has made about success and Hollywood, the TV series and her mantra to never give up. There is much wisdom in these insightful, self-deprecating and\u00a0funny quips \u2013 enjoy!
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“How I Love Lucy<\/em> was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”<\/span>
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\n<\/span>“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.”<\/span>
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\n“I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy<\/em>, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“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.”<\/span>
\n“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”<\/span><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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