I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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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.
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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