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When 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.

Barbra Streisand

I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
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
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Ideas Song Thinking
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
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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Balance Doubt Two
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Baffled Issues Moving
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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Drama Honesty Thinking
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art Name Thinking
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
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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Badass Passion Women Work
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product

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