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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Barbra Streisand

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
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
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
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
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth

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