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I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

Drew Barrymore

I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
DREW BARRYMORE

Hell Needs Want
I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
DREW BARRYMORE

Felt Political Stupid
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Balance Life Lines Work
I like women who like each other and empower each other.
DREW BARRYMORE

Each Other Empowering Women
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
DREW BARRYMORE

Cubes Ice Obsessed
The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn’t even know how to boil an egg.
DREW BARRYMORE

Eggs Faces Firsts
I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don’t need to see everything perfectly. I don’t like it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Impressionistic Need Tainted
I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.
DREW BARRYMORE

Angel Day Men One
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Daughter Focus Good Life Wife
You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dragons Fighting Fire
Going 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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Grandfather Interesting People
California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.
DREW BARRYMORE

California Girl Spiritual
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Beautiful Good Imperfection Night
I’ve got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That’s a relationship that works.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dog Pet Work Years
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
DREW BARRYMORE

Children School Simple
I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dollars Stills Two

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