I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
BARBRA STREISANDYou have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I still like my antique clothes.
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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.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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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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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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?
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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