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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

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

Performing Process
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
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
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Politics Transcend Weekend
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
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 got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood

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