Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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.’
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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 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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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