You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
BEATRICE WOODAnd I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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