You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
BEATRICE WOODYes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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