I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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