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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.

Beatrice Wood

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
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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Facts Firsts Work
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
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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Energy Overcoming People
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
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
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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Mean Thinking Time
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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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Important Matter Pearls
Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Choosing Easiest Happiest Life Time Timeless
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
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
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point

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 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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