#kin

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#comedy #especially #going #hard #i

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#drifting #focus #hardly #hour #i

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bigger #christian #control #dad #everything

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#after #around #asking #bathed #been

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#american #back #beef #best #bse

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#always #between #breeze #comes #cracking

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#beginning #dimensions #finishes #happen #i

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#barbarism #every #everyone #first #first step

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#dress #good #kind #life #real