Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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 don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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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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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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