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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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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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 then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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