Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISANDMy friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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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.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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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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