What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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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 love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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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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