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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Barbra Streisand

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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Growing Interesting People Up
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Celebrate Law Men School
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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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Earth Humans Love
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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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

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