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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

Barbra Streisand

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Celebrate Law Men School
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
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.
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Father Mother Teacher
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 also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Furniture Growing Up
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Home Important Worry
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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Felt Interesting Knows

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