Drew Barrymore Quotes
Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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I am not a player.
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I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.
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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
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Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
