Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
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It's not a good feeling when you get booed. But I don't want to be good because somebody booed me. I want to be great player because that's the way I am.
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I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.
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Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way.
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
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My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all.
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I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.
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I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
