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.
BEATRICE WOODThe 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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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 have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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