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" I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. "
Barbra Streisand
Hot
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Air
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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 think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. "
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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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" I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. "
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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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" 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 like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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 don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. "
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Care
Me
" 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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Family
" I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. "
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Taste
" 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 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 just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. "
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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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Feeling
" 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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" I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. "
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" I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. "
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" You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. "
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