I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISANDArt does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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