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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
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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Judging Lag Umpires
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Baffled Issues Moving
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Election Issues President
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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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Singing Thinking Way
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
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
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
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 artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
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 love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Being Believe Unique Yourself

The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

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