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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

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#action movies #angels #being #big #charlie

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

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anyone #different #else #function #how

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#company #feel #felt #get #gotten

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #vonnegut #family

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

— Drew Barrymore

#mother #never #really #reconciled #split

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. ↗

— Shania Twain

#arms #breathing #climbed #feel #giant

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them? ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#get #happened #hate #i #liked

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#eliminating #growing #lies #living #troubles