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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.

Barbra Streisand

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
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
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Badass Passion Women Work
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
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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Head Men World
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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Exercise Hype Ties
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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Art Name Thinking
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
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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Earth Humans Love
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
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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Awards Discouraging Giving
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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Creative Stars Thinking

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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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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