QUOTES by Barbra Streisand
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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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"As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights."
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"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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"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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"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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"I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things."
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"It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified."
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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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"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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"Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society."
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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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"Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love."
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"I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra."
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"I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday."
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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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"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"
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"Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging."
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"When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing."
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"I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air."
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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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"I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head."
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"I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work."
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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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"If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday."
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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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