Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISANDI’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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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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.
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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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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 wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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