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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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
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Brooklyn
New York
Barbra Joan Streisand
Barbara Joan Streisand
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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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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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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 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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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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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 never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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