Drew Barrymore Quotes
It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
Quotes to Explore
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
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I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
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It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
