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Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.


Mary Ellen Mark

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JIM GENOVESE Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest...
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ELLEN STOFAN Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti...
ELLEN WONG I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
ELLEN PAGE It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
ELLEN GLASGOW Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
ELLEN DEGENERES For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr...
ELLEN DEGENERES I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
ELLEN DEGENERES Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo...
ELLEN DEGENERES What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ELLEN BURSTYN So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other ...
ELLEN BURSTYN Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha...
ELLEN BURSTYN She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi...
ELLEN BURSTYN It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
ELLEN BURSTYN They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo...
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