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.
BARBRA STREISANDI must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISANDI just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISANDIt is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISANDI hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISANDI do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISANDI can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISANDWe cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISANDI go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
BARBRA STREISANDI like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
BARBRA STREISANDDirecting 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.
BARBRA STREISANDI think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISANDI’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.
BARBRA STREISANDJust like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISANDI’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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