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.
BEATRICE WOODBut you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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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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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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