My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOODDo be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change 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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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 see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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