You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
BEATRICE WOODVery few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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