The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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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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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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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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