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”.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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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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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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