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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.

Barbra Streisand

I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISAND

Color Falling House Love
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progression Time Waste Wasting
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Feet Hurt Style
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Discouraging Giving
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Holiday Listen Music Records
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Badass Passion Women Work
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need
I still like my antique clothes.
BARBRA STREISAND

Antiques Clothes Stills
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
BARBRA STREISAND

Ideas Song Thinking
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Silly Successful Tradition
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
BARBRA STREISAND

Agree Dating Same Tables
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
BARBRA STREISAND

Fun Lines Orchestra
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISAND

Different People Weird
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
BARBRA STREISAND

Couple Life Motivation
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
Art transcends politics this weekend.
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Art Politics Transcend Weekend
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Baffled Issues Moving
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

People Song Writing
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process

I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.

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