A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISANDTo 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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