I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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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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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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