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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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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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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Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.
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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.
