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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.

Barbra Streisand

They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Couple Life Motivation
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
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
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
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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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
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
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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Different Jobs Men
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Choices Health Winning
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Crazy Strength Two
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
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
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
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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Home People Sick
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
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
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
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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Psychology Use Wonderful

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