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" I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. "
Barbra Streisand
Mine
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Something
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" I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. "
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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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" 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 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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" I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. "
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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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" 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 think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process. "
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" I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat. "
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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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" 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 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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" Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. "
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" I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. "
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" In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive. "
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" I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. "
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" Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out. "
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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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