I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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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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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 a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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