Drew Barrymore Quotes

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Drew Barrymore

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• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Canada
  • Africa

• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Game
  • Always
  • Win

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Lazy
  • Concentrate

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Together
  • Yourself
  • Same

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• When we put country first, it's amazing that we're going to be able to bring people together instead of dividing America.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Azim Premji

• Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: 'Know thyself,' 68 and 'Nothing too much;' and upon these all other precepts depend.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life

• God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • Giving
  • Religious

• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • School
  • Art