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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

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND

Singing Thinking Way
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND

Born Country Stars
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
BARBRA STREISAND

Election Issues President
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
BARBRA STREISAND

Growing Interesting People Up
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
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
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
BARBRA STREISAND

Psychology Use Wonderful
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking

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