Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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.
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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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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