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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Barbra Streisand

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 STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Unexpected Unexpected Places
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Honor School
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Politics Transcend Weekend

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