A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISANDMost awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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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.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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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