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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

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
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
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Name Thinking
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND

Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Mother Should
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Challenges Thinking
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mines Mouths Stars
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISAND

Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
BARBRA STREISAND

Couple Life Motivation
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Silly Successful Tradition

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.’

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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.’

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