Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
BARBRA STREISANDA man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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