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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?

Barbra Streisand

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Important Life Love Nothing
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
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
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
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
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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