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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

Barbra Streisand

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Important Life Love Nothing
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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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Dream Hope Lying
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Biographies Errors Someday
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Benches Dog Husband
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
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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Psychology Use Wonderful
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Believe Mean Strength
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Born Country Stars
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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Drama Honesty Thinking
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
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.
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Art Name Thinking

You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

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