I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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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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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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