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Beatrice Wood

And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Inspire Life Thinking
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Believe Romantic Sex
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn’t mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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Mean Thinking Time
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
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Girlfriend Husband Men
Hardships and handicaps can…stimulate our energy to survive them. You’ll find if you study the lives of people who’ve accomplished things, it’s often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
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Energy Overcoming People
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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Life Sex Views
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Acting Actresses Fascinating
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Choosing Easiest Happiest Life Time Timeless
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy

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