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.
BARBRA STREISANDI’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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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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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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 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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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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