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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.

Barbra Streisand

My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent
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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Benches Dog Husband
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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Felt Interesting Knows
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
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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Feuds Stars Winning
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
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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Art Challenges Thinking
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
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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Choices Health Winning
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
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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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
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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Idols Play Thinking
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
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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Color Falling House Love
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special

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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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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