I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I need instant gratification.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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