Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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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.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.