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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

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
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
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
There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Important Life Love Nothing
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
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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Impossible Men Right
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
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 don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive

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