I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISANDThey’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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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.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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