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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Barbra Streisand

I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
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.
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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Care Name Spells
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
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
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.
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Psychology Use Wonderful
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
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.
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Exercise Hype Ties

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

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