When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.
DREW BARRYMOREI 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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I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I’m plugged in, in a really healthy way.
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I’d definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child’s dreams. I’d just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do… I think I’d be a good parent, actually.
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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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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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I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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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 think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
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I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.
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Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.
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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.
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I’d rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
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People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
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I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it – and you have to fight for it.
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You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
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