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When I sing, people shut up.
Barbra Streisand
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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
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Barbra Joan Streisand
Barbara Joan Streisand
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I'm a work in progress.
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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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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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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 don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'
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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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I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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