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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

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
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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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Life Sex Views
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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 owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
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
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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Inspire Life Thinking
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
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
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
First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Facts Firsts Work

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

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