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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?

Barbra Streisand

I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progression Time Waste Wasting
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
BARBRA STREISAND

Opinions People Political Thinking
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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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Explanation People Shut Up
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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Home People Sick
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
I 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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISAND

Despise Hate Our Society
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elastic Simple Thing Waist

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