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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.

Barbra Streisand

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND

Clothes Country Teenager
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progress Wings Years
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Thinking Tough Way
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Unexpected Unexpected Places
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Congratulations Ice Cream Success

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