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Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Thinking Tough Way
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Balance Doubt Two
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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Dream Hope Lying
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Ideas Song Thinking
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent

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