But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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 don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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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 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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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