I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISANDI hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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