#al

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. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#crazy #equally #exciting #match #met

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #became #before #complex #driven

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. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#any #artist #been #called #details

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. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#areas #bad #believe #big #closed

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.' ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#bad review #behind #called #could #critic

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. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#accomplishes #admired #celebrated #class #firm

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

— Barbra Streisand

#ambitious #any #i #i wish #just

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#child #get #how #matter #mature

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #know #loss #people #totally

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. ↗