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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.

Barbra Streisand

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
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Choices Health Winning
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Thinking Tough Way
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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Different Jobs Men
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
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
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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Impossible Men Right
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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Psychology Use Wonderful
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Care Lunch Nice
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.
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Art Challenges Thinking
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted

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