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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Barbra Streisand

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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
Actor
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Film Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Brooklyn
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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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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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You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.
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I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.
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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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I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
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I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.
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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I'm a work in progress.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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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 go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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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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. . . 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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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