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We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.


Ellen Gilcrist

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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 was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, '...
ELLEN ULLMAN Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
ELLEN POMPEO We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two ...
ELLEN DEGENERES 'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something...
ELLEN WONG A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrille...
ELLEN WONG I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboa...
ELLEN GOODMAN There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ...
ELLEN GOODMAN HOW

do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
ELLEN GOODMAN