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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Choices Health Winning
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Beautiful Selfish Simple
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
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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Acting Actresses Class
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Children Love Matter Mature
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.

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