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.
BARBRA STREISANDMoviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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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 sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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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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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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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