And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOODThere’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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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