Drew Barrymore Quotes

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

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• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Hollywood

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Shoes
  • Involvement

• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Real
  • Society
  • Free

• Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Government

• There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Way
  • Universe

• I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Great
  • Success
  • Like

• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Guy
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  • Green

• From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Day
  • Been
  • Open

• To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Dishonest

• I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Want
  • Trump
  • Shine

• The U.S. military is the best-trained, most effective fighting force the world has ever known. And the conduct of the vast majority of our service members makes Americans rightfully proud.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • World
  • Proud
  • Fighting

• If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Paint

• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• If you don't know what a cat is, it's sort of like a stuffed animal... but with a working asshole. I'll admit that when I went to the pound, I was actually shopping for a never ending box of shit, um, and the cat just came with it. 20

  

  Ze Frank
  • Animal
  • Cat
  • Shopping

• Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Mind

• I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Sweet