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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Barbra Streisand

I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
BARBRA STREISAND

Growing Interesting People Up
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mines Mouths Stars
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

History Hollywood Name
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Care Name Product
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
BARBRA STREISAND

Dessert Life Short Start
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND

Clothes Country Teenager
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
BARBRA STREISAND

Agree Dating Same Tables

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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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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