Drew Barrymore Quotes
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
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There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity.
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Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.
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I got my first acting role because I was a singer.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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We want to beat the best team in the world.
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I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.
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I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.
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I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.
