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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

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
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Crazy Strength Two
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Honor School
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Care Name Product
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
BARBRA STREISAND

Courage Fear Frightened
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
BARBRA STREISAND

Election Issues President
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Men People
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Mother Should
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
BARBRA STREISAND

Dessert Life Short Start

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.

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