Ellen Datlow quote: "I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are."

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls ...
ELLEN DATLOW

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear,...
ELLEN DATLOW

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of...
ELLEN DATLOW

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a...
ELLEN DATLOW

Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and ...
ELLEN DATLOW

I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in ...
ELLEN DATLOW

Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice tha...
ELLEN DATLOW

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis...
ELLEN DATLOW

I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different pers...
ELLEN DATLOW

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need ...
ELLEN KLAGES

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ...
ELLEN GOODMAN

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...
ELLEN DEGENERES

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life fami...
ELLEN BARKIN

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T...
ELLEN TAUSCHER

I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadwa...
ELLEN CHENOWETH

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure bl...
ELLEN PAGE

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde...
ELLEN ULLMAN

What are your drawn to?"
...
"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll writ...
ELLEN SUSSMAN

I would love for the world to be happier.
ELLEN DEGENERES

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me...
ELLEN DEGENERES

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying i...
ELLEN DEGENERES

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wan...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think peop...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We ...
ELLEN BARKIN

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked bad...
ELLEN POTTER

Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and bu...
ELLEN ULLMAN

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
ELLEN GILCHRIST

Innocence eroded into nightmare.
All because of very bad touch.
Love, corrupted.
ELLEN HOPKINS

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am t...
ELLEN BARKIN

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust ...
ELLEN MALCOLM

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happe...
ELLEN DEGENERES

If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
ELLEN DEGENERES

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....
ELLEN DEGENERES

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with eac...
ELLEN GOODMAN

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
ELLEN DEGENERES

I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual....
ELLEN DEGENERES

Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear a...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should reali...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.
ELLEN DEGENERES

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
ELLEN DEGENERES

If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt...
ELLEN DEGENERES

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and sl...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Haiku sounds like I'm
Saying hi to someone named
Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school. ELLEN DEGENERES

Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help som...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim thr...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yours...
ELLEN DEGENERES

So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless y...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all di...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also ha...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for brea...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clappin...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
ELLEN DEGENERES

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh...
ELLEN DEGENERES

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is ab...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
ELLEN DEGENERES

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...
ELLEN DEGENERES

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo...
ELLEN DEGENERES

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov...
ELLEN HOPKINS

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ...
ELLEN GLASGOW

Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY

All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES

We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
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

I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY

Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity an...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the cree...
ELLEN KEY

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries...
ELLEN KEY

Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts ...
ELLEN STOFAN

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
ELLEN STOFAN

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS

What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti...
ELLEN WONG

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
ELLEN PAGE

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
ELLEN GLASGOW

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
ELLEN DEGENERES

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
ELLEN DEGENERES

Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo...
ELLEN DEGENERES

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ELLEN BURSTYN

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other ...
ELLEN BURSTYN

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha...
ELLEN BURSTYN

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi...
ELLEN BURSTYN

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
ELLEN BURSTYN

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo...
ELLEN BURSTYN

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago an...
ELLEN BURSTYN

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you w...
ELLEN BURSTYN

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ...
ELLEN BURSTYN

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
ELLEN BURSTYN

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
ELLEN BURSTYN

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after...
ELLEN BURSTYN

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that&#...
ELLEN BURSTYN

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
ELLEN BURSTYN

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow...
ELLEN BURSTYN

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ...
ELLEN BURSTYN

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
ELLEN BURSTYN

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours a...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every ...
ELLEN BARKIN

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one...
ELLEN DEGENERES

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ...
ELLEN GUSTAFSON

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...
ELLEN DEGENERES

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
ELLEN HOLLMAN

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&...
ELLEN FORNEY

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
ELLEN DEGENERES

We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of ...
ELLEN STOFAN

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor...
ELLEN BASS

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m...
ELLEN GOODMAN

I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
ELLEN DEGENERES

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clerg...
ELLEN KEY

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ...
ELLEN GOODMAN

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

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I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

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