I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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