I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

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• Barbra Streisand:

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

• Barbra Streisand:

  I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

• Barbra Streisand:

  I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waist

• Barbra Streisand:

  My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I do

• Barbra Streisand:

  I never sing in the shower either.

• Barbra Streisand:

  I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

• Barbra Streisand:

  I'm a work in progress.

• Barbra Streisand:

  My mother never really thought I could become anything.

• Barbra Streisand:

  When I sing, people shut up.

• Barbra Streisand:

  It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them