A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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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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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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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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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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