Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOODBut I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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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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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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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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