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Beatrice Wood

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 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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Believe Romantic Sex
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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
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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Girlfriend Husband Men
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
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
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
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
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
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 can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way

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