Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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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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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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