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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
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People

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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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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 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 hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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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 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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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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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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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 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 was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
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