I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISANDAs a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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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.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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