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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.

Beatrice Wood

I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
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Girlfriend Husband Men
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
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
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
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 owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
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
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
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

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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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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