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.

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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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Turquoise

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Why

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Instinct
  • Guess

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• 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.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• 'The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Energy
  • Running
  • Contemporary

• Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Soul

• I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ability
  • Individual
  • Extraordinary

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man