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But it’s all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

Drew Barrymore

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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Kids Powerful Thinking
I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.
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Messages Romance Years
I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.
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Love Movie Playing Stress
I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
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Ourselves Butterfly Self Love
No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we’re really like. I loved ‘Bridesmaids’. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.
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Long Matter Reality
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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Hell Needs Want
I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn’t have it growing up.
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Big Families Growing Husband Up
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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Plates Spinning Struggle Uber
I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
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Good Happen Things Want
I’m certainly not an uptight home owner.
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Home Owners Uptight
But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
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Done T-shirt Way Woman
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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Grandfather Interesting People
The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.
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Lobster Mind Ocean
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It’s about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
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Enlightenment Obstacles Way
A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.
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Business Creativity Protection
My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
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How Know Take World
I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
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Country People Trying Wife
I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
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Hurt People Want
I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
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Hate Phones Small Voice
I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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Children Flower Girl
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?
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Life People Short Thinking
One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It’s an item that could make you believe you’re in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.
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Believe Rocks Thinking
Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.
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Adventure Comfort Zone
I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
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Homework Littles Tracy
I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
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Home Mom Real
My life is so different than I thought it would be.
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Different Life Thought
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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Friend Friendship Giving Good

But it’s all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

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But it’s all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

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