I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISANDI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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?
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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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’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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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