I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
BEATRICE WOODYou see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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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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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 can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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