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Barbra Streisand

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
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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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Biographies Errors Someday
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Idols Play Thinking
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
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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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
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
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You
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

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