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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Barbra Streisand

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
When 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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Angel Heaven Review
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
BARBRA STREISAND

Couple Life Motivation
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”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
BARBRA STREISAND

Decorate Home Lot
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
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dull Flamboyant Pure
I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISAND

Personality Persons Unattractive
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND

Law Racism Time

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