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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
BARBRA STREISAND

Felt Interesting Knows
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
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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Awards Discouraging Giving
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Done Feelings Grown Son
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
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND

Funny Inspirational Success
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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Lips Months Three

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