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The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #continues #day #director #ending

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #best #better #control #dislike

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ↗

— Mark Twain

#concealing #consists #good #good breeding #how

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#mother #never #really #reconciled #split

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. ↗

— John Barton

#conversation #entered #inspired #into #other

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. ↗

— John Barrymore

#barrymore #conventional #dear #die #fellow

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04. ↗

— Peter Bart

#continuing #example #for example #high-profile #interesting

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#control #madness #momentary #passion #will