I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISANDI also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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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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