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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

Barbra Streisand

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 STREISAND

Color Falling House Love
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Hope Lying
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND

Singing Thinking Way
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Silly Successful Tradition
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gross Kind Money Talk
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Angel Heaven Review
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gay Ideas White
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
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
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND

Being Believe Unique Yourself
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World

I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

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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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