Drew Barrymore Quotes

You've just got to do the best that you can.

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• A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Feel
  • Appreciate
  • Ways

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Know
  • Week
  • Workout

• A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Last

• I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Community

• I love being able to change from big films to small films.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Change
  • Being
  • Films

• If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Sea
  • Blessed

• Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by 'leaders' who are unable to do their job properly.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • World
  • Job
  • Chaos

• People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do … There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.

  

  Ben Stiller
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the great moments in the Jesus story. This is where Jesus hears the deep call from God.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • God
  • Moments

• 'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • World
  • Experience
  • Awesome

• I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Good
  • Game
  • Play

• The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

  

  David Means
  • Life
  • Work

• Dreams are selfish, in the sense that they always concern issues and events that were weighing on your mind at the time you had the dream. Dreams will warn you about concerns in your career, in your family life, in your relationship with your spouse, and give insight into problems with your children.

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Dream

• I live in jeans and T-shirts, and usually just throw stuff on over that. I love Brunello Cucielli, J.Crew for basics, NYDJ and DL1961 for jeans, and Magaschoni for sweaters.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
  • Live

• Dear Does = Theo van Doesburg , thank you for your letter.. .I was glad to know that in principle you are in favour of the diamond hanging Mondrian's painting, he made in 1919, hanging in a rhombus and I think that in practice you will approve of this method for some of my things. You look at the thing painting itself, and not only the outward appearance..

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Practice
  • Painting
  • Diamond

• You've just got to do the best that you can.

  

  Drew Barrymore