If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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