I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDA 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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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I’m a work in progress.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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