I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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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’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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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”.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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