We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISANDI have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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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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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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