Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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?
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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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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