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 STREISANDJust like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I 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.
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I need instant gratification.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I’m a work in progress.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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