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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

Barbra Streisand

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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Drama Honesty Thinking
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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Impossible Men Right
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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
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
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
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Badass Passion Women Work
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
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 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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Psychology Use Wonderful
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
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
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
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.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
BARBRA STREISAND

Benches Dog Husband
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Holiday Listen Music Records

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