I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
BEATRICE WOODThe 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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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