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This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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Decision Editing Team Writing
You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
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Fashion Jeans Play
If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
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Saying Thank Weird
Procrastination isn’t the problem. It’s the solution. It’s the universe’s way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.
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Moving Procrastination Way
We’re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?
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Funny Gay Humor Otherwise Really
Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Eye Inspirational Inspiring
I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
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Animal Home Pet Resentment
It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
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Challenges Important True Yourself
I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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Aunt Children Discipline
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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Goes On Saws Vegan
I don’t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.
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Consider Entertainers Interviewer Much
Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I’ve been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I’m happy I could give him work.
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Funny Giving Humor
When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it’s hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn’t feel like me.
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Embrace Feel Feminine People
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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Asparagus Funny Humor
No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.
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Cruz Pens Perfect
Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.
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Eight Numbers Physical Zero

This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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