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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

Beatrice Wood

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
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
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
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
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
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

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