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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 Barrymore

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
It’s my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.
DREW BARRYMORE

Crusades Feel Good Helping
I’m sure wine snobs look at me and think, how dare you.
DREW BARRYMORE

Looks Thinking Wine
My therapist says I still haven’t got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I’m going to explode. But I’m still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I’m on now.
DREW BARRYMORE

Anger Day Explode One Path
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Healthy Important Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Children Dream Thinking
When I did ‘E.T.,’ it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of ‘This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I’m going to survive.’
DREW BARRYMORE

Film Gypsy Solidification Want
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing – but it works miracles.
DREW BARRYMORE

Children School Simple
Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.
DREW BARRYMORE

Fall Mean Motivational Potholes
I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
DREW BARRYMORE

Country People Trying Wife
My life is so different than I thought it would be.
DREW BARRYMORE

Different Life Thought
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
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
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 think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That’s not me trying to make everything OK – it’s me saying, “No, we love each other. Let’s not pretend we don’t.”
DREW BARRYMORE

Breakup Thinking Trying
I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
DREW BARRYMORE

Home Kids Wonderful

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.

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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.

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