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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Song Writing
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
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 STREISAND

Creeps Saws Wanted
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Barometer Truth
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mind Negative Remember
I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work

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