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

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Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
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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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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 like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall Democrat, Republican black, white gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.
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It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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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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. . . 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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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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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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 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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