. . . 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 STREISANDDirecting is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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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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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I need instant gratification.
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