Drew Barrymore Quotes

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Years
  • Doing

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Age
  • Me
  • Mom

• Philly has been dominating things in the division. You aren't going to go anywhere until you can match up with them.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Division
  • Dominant

• I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Amazing

• If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Art
  • Cooking

• I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I don't even know why they did it. I came home crying one day and told my mom I couldn't be around them anymore. So we decided I would be homeschooled. I think it's important to check in with yourself and make sure you are being exactly who you want to be. When I am true to who I am, I'm a better girfriend. I'm just more happy being me.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Home
  • Mean
  • Girls

• I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

  

  Drew Barrymore
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