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.
BARBRA STREISANDBelieve in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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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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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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