Barbra Streisand Quotes
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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This bikini made me a success.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
