I’m not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOODI’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
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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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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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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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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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