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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

Barbra Streisand

I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
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
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Articles Malicious Slander Tired
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND

Clothes Country Teenager
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
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

Psychology Use Wonderful
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISAND

Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Politics Transcend Weekend
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

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