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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.

Barbra Streisand

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
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 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’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
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.
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Believe Mean Strength
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
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
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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Anyone Consider Mirrors Nose Trust
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
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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Opinions People Political Thinking
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art Name Thinking
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
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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Head Men World

My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.

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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.

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