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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Barbra Streisand

We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
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
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
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 STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Love Matter Mature
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Politics Transcend Weekend
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Stars Talent
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Reality Truth
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISAND

Different People Weird

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