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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.

Barbra Streisand

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
BARBRA STREISAND

Decorate Home Lot
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Mean Strength
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND

Law Racism Time
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Mother Should
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mind Negative Remember
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Biographies Errors Someday
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
BARBRA STREISAND

Growing Interesting People Up

. . . 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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. . . 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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