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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

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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISAND

Friendship Loss Lost People
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 STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
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 never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND

Either Showers Sing
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Selfish Simple
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND

Envy God Pain
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Interesting Over Trust You
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Men People
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Life Live Moments
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Process Stardom Weird Work

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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