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I never sing in the shower either.

Barbra Streisand

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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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Holiday Listen Music Records
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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Head Men World
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Children Love Matter Mature
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
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)
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Ideas Song Thinking
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
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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Play Wish Writing
I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Gay Ideas White
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work

I never sing in the shower either.

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