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.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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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 need instant gratification.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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 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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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