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

Barbra Streisand

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
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
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
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.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
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
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
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’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
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
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
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.
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Father Mother Teacher
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
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
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Mean Strength

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

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