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.
BEATRICE WOODYou see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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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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