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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Articles Malicious Slander Tired
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Life Live Moments
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Politics Transcend Weekend
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

History Hollywood Name
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking

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