I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
BARBRA STREISANDEverybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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?
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