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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.

Barbra Streisand

It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Create Ego Healthy True
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
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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Actresses Mother Should
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Home Important Worry
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
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 also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Furniture Growing Up
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
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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Father Mother Teacher
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid

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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