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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.

Barbra Streisand

When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Explanation People Shut Up
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Friendship Loss Lost People
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Love Matter Mature
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISAND

Different People Weird
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting My Own School
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Furniture Growing Up
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Holiday Listen Music Records
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISAND

Definitions Inevitable Progress
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISAND

Men Obsessed Permit Strong Women
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Frightening People Person
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires

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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