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.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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Love is a state of being.
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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.
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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.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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'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.'
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
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Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
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If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
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My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
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The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
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From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
