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.
BARBRA STREISANDI hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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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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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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