Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOODAnd then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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There’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.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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