Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISANDI can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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 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’m a work in progress.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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