I don’t think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What’s the worst that’s going to happen?
DREW BARRYMOREHappiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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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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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
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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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I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.
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I’m very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
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I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
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I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.
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I always leave a relationship with a sense of hope.
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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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I just didn’t understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
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Whatever I’ve experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I’m proud of that. But it’s someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving… I’m so much about school, consistency and tradition.
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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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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I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
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I definitely don’t think that I’m hot doo-doo. I don’t.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how we learn.
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What’s helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
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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.
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I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
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I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
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I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
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