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When I sing, people shut up.

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.
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Father Mother Teacher
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
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
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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Art Challenges Thinking
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Feuds Stars Winning
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
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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Gay Mother Son
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Gay Ideas White
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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Country Perfect Years
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager

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