I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISANDThe artist as citizen is here to stay.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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