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.’
BARBRA STREISANDI just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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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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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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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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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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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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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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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