I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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