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

Furniture Growing Up
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.
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Father Mother Teacher
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
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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Singing Thinking Way
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Born Country Stars
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
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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Play Wish Writing
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Dessert Life Short Start
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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Art Challenges Thinking
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art Name Thinking
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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Silly Successful Tradition
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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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Done Feelings Grown Son
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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Home People Sick
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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Creeps Saws Wanted

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