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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

Barbra Streisand

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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Feet Hurt Style
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
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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People Song Writing
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
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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Country Perfect Years
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Couple Life Motivation
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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Lips Months Three
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Culture Needs Sick
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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Air Men People
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.
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Parent School Son
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Concept Conform Family Ideal Mythical
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Crazy Strength Two
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Elected Pope President
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Heritage Noses Talent
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
I never sing in the shower either.
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Either Showers Sing
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth

It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

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