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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

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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Feuds Stars Winning
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Courage Fear Frightened
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
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Congratulations Ice Cream Success
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Opinions People Political Thinking
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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Drama Honesty Thinking
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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Myself Talking Work
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Brave Late Subjects
Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Envy God Pain
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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Bulls Loss Red
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Essential Essentially Music

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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