I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISANDHow I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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 don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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