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 STREISANDThe audience is the barometer of the truth.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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