Barbra Streisand Quotes
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
