I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODAnd then a great thing in my life was going to India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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 then a great thing in my life was going to 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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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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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