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.
BEATRICE WOODMy life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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 then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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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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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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