I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISANDI worked in a Chinese restaurant.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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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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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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