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 STREISANDWhy don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I need instant gratification.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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