I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDDirecting 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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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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