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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Barbra Streisand

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
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Progress Wings Years
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Care Name Spells
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
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
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
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
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
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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Felt Interesting Knows
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
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking

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