Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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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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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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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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