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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.

Barbra Streisand

A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
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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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
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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Country Perfect Years
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
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Care Name Spells
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
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
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
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
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
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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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself

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