I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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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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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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