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.
BEATRICE WOODAnd 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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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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 owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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