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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Beatrice Wood

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
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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Energy Overcoming People
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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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Mean Thinking Time
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy
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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Believe Romantic Sex
Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Choosing Easiest Happiest Life Time Timeless
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
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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Important Matter Pearls

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

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