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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Feuds Stars Winning
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Election Issues President
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
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
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
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
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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Balance Doubt Two
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
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.
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Exercise Hype Ties
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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Awards Discouraging Giving
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brave Late Subjects
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted
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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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
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 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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Baffled Issues Moving
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
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 don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
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
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”.
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