The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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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 was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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