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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

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

Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
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
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bias Country Humane Ideas Liberal Media
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND

Avocados Smell Taste
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISAND

Create Ego Healthy True
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elastic Simple Thing Waist
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Stars Talent
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISAND

Play Wish Writing

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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