Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
BARBRA STREISANDIn 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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