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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Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
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The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.
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No one can take their place or their England shirt for granted. If I want to be in that squad, I need to keep banging in the goals to make sure I stay in the manager's plans.
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Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.
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A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
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Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.
