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Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don’t be a people pleaser.

Drew Barrymore

I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
DREW BARRYMORE

Hurt People Want
I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won’t be able to get to know someone another way.
DREW BARRYMORE

Eye Hippie Mean
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 have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library… beyond that, I’m completely intimidated by it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Internet Library Savvy
Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.
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Adventure Comfort Zone
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
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Cubes Ice Obsessed
I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.
DREW BARRYMORE

Different Female Kind
I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.
DREW BARRYMORE

Country People Trying Wife
I don’t want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
DREW BARRYMORE

Children Flower Girl
I did love horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. That was my sweet spot.
DREW BARRYMORE

Film Horror Sweet
A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
DREW BARRYMORE

Imperfection Meaningful Pages
Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they’re dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it’ll make it better.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dying Flower Helping
When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
DREW BARRYMORE

Inspirational Perfect Worry
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
DREW BARRYMORE

Balance Life Lines Work
You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.
DREW BARRYMORE

Glitter Good Knows Things
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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Children Conviction Relationship Romantic
California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.
DREW BARRYMORE

California Girl Spiritual
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
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
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
DREW BARRYMORE

Day Girl Mom Mother
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
You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dragons Fighting Fire
Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don’t know if I’m sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I’m a bit on my own and that’s a very disheartening feeling.
DREW BARRYMORE

Feelings Sexy Thinking
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.
DREW BARRYMORE

Lobster Mind Ocean
I’m very homework-oriented – I’m a little Tracy Flick-ish.
DREW BARRYMORE

Homework Littles Tracy
I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.
DREW BARRYMORE

Actors Eye Thinking
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s be a real girl.
DREW BARRYMORE

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