Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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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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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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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.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.