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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
Barbra Streisand
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
Barbra Streisand
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
Barbra Streisand
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
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I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
Barbra Streisand
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
Barbra Streisand
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
Barbra Streisand
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Barbra Streisand
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
Barbra Streisand
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
Barbra Streisand
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
Barbra Streisand
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand
