A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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