When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISANDAs a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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