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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

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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Silly Successful Tradition
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Limit My Own Want
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Self Esteem Songwriting Trust
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 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
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
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
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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Believe Mean Strength
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain

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.

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