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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

Barbra Streisand

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’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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Color Falling House Love
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
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
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Reality Truth
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Beautiful Selfish Simple
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Born Country Stars
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Brave Late Subjects
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Play Wish Writing
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
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?
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Different Jobs Men

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