I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDHow 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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 do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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