Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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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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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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