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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Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
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(Talking about what he wants at his funeral)
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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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.
