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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

Beatrice Wood

First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
BEATRICE WOOD

Facts Firsts Work
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Acting Actresses Fascinating
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
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
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
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
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
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
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
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
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
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
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 was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

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