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I’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.

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
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
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
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
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND

Born Country Stars
I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Ambition More Privacy Talk Wish
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Definitions Inevitable Progress
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dull Flamboyant Pure
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

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