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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gross Kind Money Talk
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progress Wings Years
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISAND

Personality Persons Unattractive
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Stars Thinking
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everything Know Learn Sure Want
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Holiday Listen Music Records
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work

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