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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

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

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
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
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND

Law Racism Time
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
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
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
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Biographies Errors Someday
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Thinking Tough Way
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
BARBRA STREISAND

Appreciate Done Years
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 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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
BARBRA STREISAND

Feuds Stars Winning
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth

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

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