Drew Barrymore Quotes
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
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After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
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Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
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Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.
