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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Beatrice Wood

Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
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
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
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
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
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
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
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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
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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Mean Thinking Time
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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