I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I need instant gratification.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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