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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Barbra Streisand

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Stars Talent
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND

Funny Inspirational Success
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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Play Wish Writing
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
BARBRA STREISAND

Citizens Hate Tell Wish
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Challenges Thinking

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