I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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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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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 worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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