And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOODDo be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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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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Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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I’m not too interested in books about 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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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