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My mother never really thought I could become anything.

Barbra Streisand

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
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
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Feet Hurt Style
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
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 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
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer Work
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Artist Speaking Up Voice
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’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
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
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
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 never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise

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