A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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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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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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I never sing in the shower either.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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