But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
BEATRICE WOODI don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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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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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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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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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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