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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.

Barbra Streisand

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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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Balance Doubt Two
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
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Earth Humans Love
I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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Anyone Consider Mirrors Nose Trust
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
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
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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Head Men World
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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Acting Actresses Class
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
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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Psychology Use Wonderful
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
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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Actresses Mother Should
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Election Issues President
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Badass Passion Women Work
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
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
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother

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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