Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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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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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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