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.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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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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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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