Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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If what you want to do is make artwork for bands, you have to love doing it because there is almost no money in it. In order to start doing it, you just have to put yourself out there, work for bands you love and for as little as possible to start, if not free, that's what I did for years.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
