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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Barbra Streisand

Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
BARBRA STREISAND

Coffee Cream Littles Real
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
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
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
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 still like my antique clothes.
BARBRA STREISAND

Antiques Clothes Stills
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creeps Saws Wanted
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Badass Passion Women Work
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
BARBRA STREISAND

Appreciate Done Years

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

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