On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
BARBRA STREISANDI’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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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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