I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
BEATRICE WOODMy life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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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 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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