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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

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
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
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 I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Thinking Tough Way
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
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
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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
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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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist

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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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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