But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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.
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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, 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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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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