Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for 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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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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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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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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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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