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I’m not too interested in books about India.

Beatrice Wood

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Acting Actresses Fascinating
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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Life Sex Views
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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.
BEATRICE WOOD

Mean Thinking Time
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
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 WOOD

Energy Overcoming People
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy
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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Inspire Life Thinking

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