I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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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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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I need instant gratification.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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