Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.