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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

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Light Name Young
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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Creative Stars Thinking
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Actress Get Singer 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’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Everything Know Learn Sure Want
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Choices Health Winning
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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People Song Writing
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
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.
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Parent School Son
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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Celebrate Law Men School
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Holiday Listen Music Records
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
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
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
A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Dull Flamboyant Pure
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Benches Dog Husband
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Badass Passion Women Work
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Art Challenges Thinking
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Experience Instinct Natural Worry
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Fun Lines Orchestra

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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