A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOODBut, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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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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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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 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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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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