I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISANDLife’s too short. Start with Dessert!
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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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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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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.
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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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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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