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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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 happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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