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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Barbra Streisand

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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Name Thinking
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Unexpected Unexpected Places
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISAND

Funny Inspirational Success
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Stars Thinking
I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
BARBRA STREISAND

Opinions People Political Thinking
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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