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We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.


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ELLEN GLASGOW Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
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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...
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