Drew Barrymore Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
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It's like a mathematical law, Grace.
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California is an unbelievable state.
