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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

Barbra Streisand

I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting My Own School
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Life Live Moments
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISAND

Color Falling House Love
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
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 STREISAND

Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Angel Heaven Review
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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mines Mouths Stars
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Feelings Grown Son

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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