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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Challenges Thinking
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Honor School
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND

Being Believe Unique Yourself
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
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Speaking Up Voice
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Barometer Truth
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
BARBRA STREISAND

People President Remember
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste

I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

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