Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISANDThey’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I need instant gratification.
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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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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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