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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

I need instant gratification.
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Gratification Instant Need
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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Parent School Son
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
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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Head Men World
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Country Frightening People Person
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
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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Impossible Men Right
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
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
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
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
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Baffled Issues Moving
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
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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Awards Discouraging Giving
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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Dream Hope Lying
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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Psychology Use Wonderful
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Benches Dog Husband
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND

Envy God Pain

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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