Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
