The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISANDprogress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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.
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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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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