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ELLEN VAUGHN Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun... ELLEN VAUGHN He knows so little and knows it so fluently. ELLEN GLASGOW Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ELLEN GLASGOW What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time . The wonderful luxury of being at r... ELLEN GOODMAN Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. ELLEN GLASGOW People tend to remember my performances, not me. ELLEN BARKIN There ELLEN GOODMAN He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent... ELLEN GLASGOW Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec... ELLEN KEY Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. ELLEN BARKIN I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So... ELLEN DEGENERES Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ELLEN DEGENERES Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ELLEN SIMON Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ELLEN GOODMAN I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c... ELLEN DEGENERES We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ELLEN WOOD Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. ELLEN GLASGOW Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my ... ELLEN DEGENERES Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks. ELLEN HERMAN The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. ELLEN GOODMAN Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo... ELLEN GOODMAN Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. ELLEN ULLMAN The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, a... ELLEN KEY It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri... ELLEN GREENE The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar... ELLEN DEGENERES The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anyb... ELLEN DEGENERES The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. ELLEN OCHOA It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New... ELLEN BARKIN It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hel... ELLEN BURSTYN People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. ELLEN DEGENERES The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the ... ELLEN DEGENERES No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for th... ELLEN KEY People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with any... ELLEN DEGENERES My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ... ELLEN DEGENERES When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ... ELLEN KEY Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find... ELLEN DEGENERES I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti... ELLEN DEGENERES At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev... ELLEN KEY