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Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.


Ellen Burstyn

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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 We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to ...
ELLEN DEGENERES I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours a...
ELLEN DEGENERES I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every ...
ELLEN BARKIN If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one...
ELLEN DEGENERES The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ...
ELLEN GUSTAFSON Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...
ELLEN DEGENERES It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they...
ELLEN DEGENERES I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
ELLEN HOLLMAN For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&...
ELLEN FORNEY Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
ELLEN DEGENERES We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of ...
ELLEN STOFAN So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor...
ELLEN BASS When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m...
ELLEN GOODMAN I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
ELLEN DEGENERES The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clerg...
ELLEN KEY We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ...
ELLEN GOODMAN I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, '...
ELLEN ULLMAN