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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

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Celebrate Law Men School
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
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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People Song Writing
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Election Issues President
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Being Believe Unique Yourself
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Care Lunch Nice
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Idols Play Thinking
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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Father Mother Teacher
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
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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Acting Actresses Class
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
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.
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Blue School Years
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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Creeps Saws Wanted
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
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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Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
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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Gay Ideas White
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.
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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.

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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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