Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISANDI was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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 don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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