Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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 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 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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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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