Drew Barrymore Quotes
When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I do get free stuff.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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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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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
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A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'
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We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
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When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
