When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISANDWe cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of 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’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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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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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