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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Name Thinking
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
BARBRA STREISAND

Decorate Home Lot
I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Biographies Errors Someday
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISAND

Despise Hate Our Society
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame

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