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You can only get a beginner's mind once.


Ellen Ullman

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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