No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISANDThe dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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I’m a work in progress.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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 got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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