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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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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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 is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
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My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!
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I wanted a name on my shirt that represented who I am, and I feel I have no connection with the Alli surname.
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Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
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Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.
