Drew Barrymore Quotes

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Drew Barrymore

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Breaks

• Love is a state of being.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Love
  • Being
  • Love Is

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Art
  • Parents
  • Artist

• I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Down

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Power
  • Leadership

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Good
  • Important
  • Feeling

• 'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Walking

• What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

  

  Euripides
  • Death
  • Tears
  • Sorry

• From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Age
  • Death
  • Perspective