Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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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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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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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