I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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 don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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