I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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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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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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