I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
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I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
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I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
- Ellen DeGeneres Quote

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.
- Ellen DeGeneres Quote

Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and just run away.
- Ellen DeGeneres Quote

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
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