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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Barbra Streisand

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

Performing Process
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
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
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.
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Creeps Saws Wanted
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
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 read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
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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Couple Life Motivation
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Gay Ideas White
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
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years

The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

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