Barbra Streisand Quotes

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

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• I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English