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Barbra Streisand

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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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
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
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Balance Doubt Two
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
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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Choices Health Winning

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