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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

I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Love Matter Mature
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Balance Doubt Two
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
BARBRA STREISAND

Agree Dating Same Tables
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
BARBRA STREISAND

Growing Interesting People Up
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progression Time Waste Wasting
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
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
BARBRA STREISAND

People President Remember

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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