All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. “Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?” “Yes, I have all those things! I’m alive!”
ELLEN DEGENERESI’m on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I’m gonna rip it off.
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If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
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There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness… It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.
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People give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
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What’s New Orleans without music? And what’s music without dancing?
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
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I’m on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I’m gonna rip it off.
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I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It’s not easy to find those people all the time, but they’re out there.
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I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.
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I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
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Do we have to know who’s gay and who’s straight? Can’t we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
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The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.
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I was raised in an atmosphere of ‘everything’s fine.’ But as I got older, I was like, ‘Well no, everything’s not fine. There is stuff that’s sad.’ I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
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I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it’s me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
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