Drew Barrymore Quotes

I never act my characters - I am them.

Drew Barrymore

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Name

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Spiritual
  • Natural
  • Fact

• Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • First
  • Example
  • Conservation

• I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Like
  • Got
  • Jay

• I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Family
  • Home

• My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Ambition
  • Fiction
  • Mine

• It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Out

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.

  

  Ram Dass

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Gay

• What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • World
  • Important
  • Success

• What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Gentleman

• She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She
  • Lost
  • Alone

• Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

  

  Tom Hanks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Screw Up

• What is interesting to me is what has happened in the past that has made me who I am today together with all of my musical influences.

  

  John Lodge The Moody Blues
  • Music
  • Influences
  • Made Me

• Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

  

  David Kay
  • War

• Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Joy

• I never act my characters - I am them.

  

  Drew Barrymore