I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.’
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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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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