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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Barbra Streisand

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
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 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 just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Care Name Spells
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
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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Lips Months Three
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’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
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
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Badass Passion Women Work
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Care Lunch Nice
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
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
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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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
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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Father Mother Teacher
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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