#la

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#arena #awards #delicate #fill #funny

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

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#fairness #family #field #income #issue

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#although #anyone #even #get #golf

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

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#embarked #explanation #i #life #my life

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

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#childhood #comes #i #i think #last

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#action #advance #aimless #days #may

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#alter #aspire #consciousness #deep #infiltrate