The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISANDI never sing in the shower either.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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.’
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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