Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOODAnd 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.
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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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