The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
BEATRICE WOODAnd 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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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 can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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