As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISANDI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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