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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

Beatrice Wood

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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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
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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Believe Romantic Sex
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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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Facts Firsts Work
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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Energy Overcoming People
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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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Life Sex Views
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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Girlfriend Husband Men
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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Important Matter Pearls
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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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Inspire Life Thinking
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself

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