My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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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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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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 am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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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 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 read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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