Drew Barrymore Quotes
My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I can do whatever I want.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
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If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
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My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
