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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.

Barbra Streisand

My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Articles Malicious Slander Tired
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ridiculous Stars Stupid
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISAND

Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND

Singing Thinking Way
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
BARBRA STREISAND

Felt Interesting Knows
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home Important Worry
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Life Live Moments
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lying Take Truth
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
BARBRA STREISAND

Exercise Hype Ties
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People

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 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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