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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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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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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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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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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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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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.
