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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Barbra Streisand

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
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
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 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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Father Mother Teacher
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Play Wish Writing
I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Gross Kind Money Talk
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Home Important Worry
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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.
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Exercise Hype Ties
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
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
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Dream Every Men Woman
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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Drama Honesty Thinking
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
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
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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Blue School Years
Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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Coffee Cream Littles Real
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
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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Children Love Matter Mature
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Judging Lag Umpires
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Avocados Smell Taste
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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People Song Writing

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