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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.

Drew Barrymore

Whether you’re throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don’t trust women who don’t go to their girlfriends.
DREW BARRYMORE

Girlfriend Throwing Up Want
Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.
DREW BARRYMORE

Adventure Comfort Zone
But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
DREW BARRYMORE

Done T-shirt Way Woman
I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
DREW BARRYMORE

Home Mom Real
You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dragons Fighting Fire
When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
DREW BARRYMORE

Inspirational Perfect Worry
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Ourselves Pain Past Say Want
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Charitable School Work
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
DREW BARRYMORE

Imperfection Mind People
I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
DREW BARRYMORE

Big Families Growing Husband Up
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
DREW BARRYMORE

Cute Kissing Octopus
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Passion Pride Spiritual
I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dollars Stills Two
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
DREW BARRYMORE

Being Happiness Happy Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Plates Spinning Struggle Uber
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 BARRYMORE

Institutions People Perfect

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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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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