Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

Ellen DeGeneres

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• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

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• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

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• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

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• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

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• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

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• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  

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• I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

  

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• I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

  

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  • Know
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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

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• Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

  

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• There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

  

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• I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.

  

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• There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

  

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• I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

  

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• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

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• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

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• I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

  

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• No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.

  

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• Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

  

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• I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Deep