favorite quotes from Barbra Streisand’s memoir I’ve collected as I’ve listened:
It was nice to be a little bit closer to the sky.
I didn’t know Doris and she didn’t know me, yet somehow she had peered into my soul.
Can you imagine what it was like working with his eyes on you? I felt seen. (on Marlon Brando)
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.
Why did it feel as if he knew me? Instinctively you sense when there’s a connection. Somehow you recognize each other. Like somehow you know each other. (on Brando)
Come with me to the desert. We’ll see the wildflowers and look at the stars. (Brando)
I kiss you goodbye on your inner thigh and on your lips. (“)
Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much. (“)
You’re never gonna get it all, and that’s what makes you want to keep listening.
Let go of your need to understand. I’m still not good at it.
One hot night at the house, a few of us were in the pool. It was very beautiful and serene out there in the dark under the stars. We could’ve been anywhere in the world.
All the consequences were there. Sharp as a high F.
Perhaps he was uncomfortable with his own feelings. Sometimes he’d say I can’t talk to you for a while. (on her love affair with James Newton Howard)
There was nothing more to be learned— the tape was blank. (“)
I remember riding in a car and being struck by this terrible despondency. (“)
I love pictures from the back because they’re revealing in a whole other way.
Suffering is the resistance to what is.
Thoughts?