Barbra Streisand Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
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“I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.”
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“I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?”
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“I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.”
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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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“It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.”
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“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
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“I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.”
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“I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.”
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“I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.”
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“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
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“What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.”
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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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“I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.”
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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'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.”
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“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”
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“Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.”
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“I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan”
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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 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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“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 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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“I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.”
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“Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.”
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“When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”
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“Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.”
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“There is nothing more important in life than love.”
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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 go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”
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