Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISANDI can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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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.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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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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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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