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?
BARBRA STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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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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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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I need instant gratification.
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