Barbra Streisand Quotes
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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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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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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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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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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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.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.