Barbra Streisand Quotes
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
