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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

Barbra Streisand

I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everything Know Learn Sure Want
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Holiday Listen Music Records
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 don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Thinking Tough Way
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
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
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
BARBRA STREISAND

People President Remember
I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Name Thinking
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND

Funny Inspirational Success
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

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