First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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 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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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