I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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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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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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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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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