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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.

Barbra Streisand

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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History Hollywood Name
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
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.
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Creative Stars Thinking
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Beautiful Selfish Simple
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Celebrate Law Men School
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
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 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 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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