A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOODYes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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And 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.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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