Barbra Streisand Quotes
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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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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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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
