Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
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"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
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"What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to."
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"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."
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"I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia."
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"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."
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"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
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"Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love."
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"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough."
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"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
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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 man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
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"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"
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"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
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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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"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good."
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"I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all."
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"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"
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"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one."
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"I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven."
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