If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISANDI’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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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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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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