Barbra Streisand Quotes
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
