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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

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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Different Jobs Men
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
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
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’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.

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