But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
BEATRICE WOODI’m not too interested in books about India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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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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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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