Barbra Streisand Quotes
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Quotes to Explore
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
