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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

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
When I sing, people shut up.
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Explanation People Shut Up
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
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
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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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Decorate Home Lot
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
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
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People

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