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.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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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 don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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I still like my antique clothes.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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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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