Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
BEATRICE WOODThere’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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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to 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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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