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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Children Love Matter Mature
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
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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Idols Play Thinking
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Judging Lag Umpires
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Done Feelings Grown Son
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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Country Perfect Years
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Born Country Stars
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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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress

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