Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
BARBRA STREISANDI’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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’m a work in progress.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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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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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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 also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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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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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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