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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

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
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.
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Air Men People
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
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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Country Perfect Years
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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People President Remember
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Balance Doubt Two
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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Growing Interesting People Up
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Being Believe Unique Yourself
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Despise Hate Our Society
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Gay Ideas White
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
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.
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Crazy Strength Two
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
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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Awards Discouraging Giving

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.

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