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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

Barbra Streisand

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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Reality Truth
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Psychology Use Wonderful
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.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dull Flamboyant Pure
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISAND

Different People Weird
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Generation Signature

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