I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
BEATRICE WOODHardships 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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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