Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
BEATRICE WOODHere in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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 I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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