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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

Barbra Streisand

I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
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
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Couple Life Motivation
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Idols Play Thinking
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
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 also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
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’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love

A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

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