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 STREISANDWhen 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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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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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I’m a work in progress.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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