You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISANDSuccess to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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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.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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