I didn’t grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner ‘plan,’ it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.
DREW BARRYMOREGoing back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
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I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don’t relate to that at all. It isn’t fair! I absolutely live for food.
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.
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The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
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When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
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I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.
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But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
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I’m not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.
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I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don’t feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, ‘We don’t have to feel pain.’ No! Let’s feel it, let’s make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.
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I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It’s an item that could make you believe you’re in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.
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I don’t want to be vain or fearful, and I don’t think I’ll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. 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’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
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I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
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I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex – But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.
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When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven’t figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.
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My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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I know that I won’t succeed at everything, every day. Some days have to be solely about my daughter. Some days I really try to be a good wife. Other days, I can take a few hours for myself and just do nothing but really focus on work.
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Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
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I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It’s about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
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If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
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