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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Barbra Streisand

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 worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
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
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Believe Mean Strength
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Blue School Years
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
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?
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Idols Play Thinking
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
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.
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Parent School Son
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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Home People Sick
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
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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