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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.

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
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
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.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
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
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Acting My Own School
. . . 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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Growing Interesting People Up
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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Lips Months Three
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Earth Humans Love
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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Crazy Strength Two
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Blue School Years
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Artist Citizen Stay
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
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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Anyone Consider Mirrors Nose Trust
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
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 wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
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

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