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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.

Barbra Streisand

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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Dream Hope Lying
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Couple Life Motivation
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
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
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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Bulls Loss Red
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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Believe Reality Truth
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
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
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art Name Thinking

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.

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