I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
BARBRA STREISANDLife’s too short. Start with Dessert!
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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