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I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.


Mary Ellen Mark

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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