I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISANDWhy am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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 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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I’m a work in progress.
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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”.
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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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