Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISANDYou have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I never sing in the shower either.
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To 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.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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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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