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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

Barbra Streisand

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
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
BARBRA STREISAND

Psychology Use Wonderful
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Stars Talent
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND

Born Country Stars
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Care Name Spells
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISAND

Despise Hate Our Society
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People
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”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elastic Simple Thing Waist
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
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
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
I still like my antique clothes.
BARBRA STREISAND

Antiques Clothes Stills
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brave Late Subjects

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