But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOODHardships 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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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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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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