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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

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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.

Barbra Streisand

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

Barbra Streisand

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

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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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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

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I never sing in the shower either.

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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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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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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

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There is nothing more important in life than 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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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

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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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When I sing, people shut up.

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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

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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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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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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

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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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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

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