Drew Barrymore Quotes

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

Drew Barrymore

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• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Desire

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Giving

• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Perfect
  • Purpose
  • Film

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Age
  • Walking
  • Adult

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

  

  Georg Solti

• I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Design

• Our trademark asymmetrical hairstyle came about by accident. My sister was trying to get her beautician's licence, and I was her guinea pig. She permed my hair and didn't wash out one of the sides properly, so the whole right side of my hair was eaten out. After she washed it, I was half bald.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Trying
  • She
  • Hair

• It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Food
  • Road
  • Tough

• What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Wisdom

• There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Road