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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

Barbra Streisand

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Acting Actresses Class
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Lying Take Truth
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Choices Health Winning
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Balance Doubt Two
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
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
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Mind Negative Remember
He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Gay Mother Son

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