Barbra Streisand quotes - page 3

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday. (Barbra Streisand)
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I need instant gratification.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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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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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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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything. (Barbra Streisand)
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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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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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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 always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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)
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
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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'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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