When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISANDArt finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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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 don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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 don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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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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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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 only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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