I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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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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 need instant gratification.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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