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Barbra Streisand

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progress Wings Years
I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Gay Ideas White
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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Home People Sick
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Mother Son
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND

Born Country Stars
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
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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Lips Months Three
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Children Love Matter Mature
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Brave Late Subjects
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
BARBRA STREISAND

Couple Life Motivation

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