Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Music is about the performance.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.
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My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!
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It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
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I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
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Farden, I swear to the gods, I will carry you through this door myself if you don’t hurry up!
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I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
