My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISANDYou know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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 need instant gratification.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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?
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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