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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!

Barbra Streisand

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Feuds Stars Winning
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
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
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Benches Dog Husband
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND

Envy God Pain
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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Lips Months Three
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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Psychology Use Wonderful
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure

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