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While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. Id say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Find out who you are and be that person. Thats what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. – Ellen DeGeneres

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I was raised in an atmosphere of everythings fine. But as I got older, I was like, Well no, everythings not fine. There is stuff thats sad. I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes. – Ellen DeGeneres

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sad
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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. Its good for a kid to know how to make gloves. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything Ive been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be. – R. Kelly

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Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so Im careful. I dont even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. – Lena Dunham

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