Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISANDI am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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