#ant

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#college #go #holding #i #may

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends. ↗

— Rick Barry

#bought #buy #coach #friends #gotten

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage. ↗

— Todd Barry

#comedy #comic #could #decide #during

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats. ↗

— John Berryman

#like #want #wanted #yeats

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#childish #definitely #else #ever #fantastic

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#comfortable #i #i can #important #incredibly

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#being #caught #continually #cool thing #door

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#fervor #get #going #hunger #i

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#dusty #everything #face #glass #hate

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#learn #learning #listening #never #only