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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Biographies Errors Someday
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISAND

Clothes Country Teenager
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
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
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Crazy Strength Two
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISAND

Color Falling House Love
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Articles Malicious Slander Tired
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Men People
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Silly Successful Tradition
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years

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