Beatrice Wood on changing
Beatrice Wood35 quotes“You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.”
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood I was in a convent for a year.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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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Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
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As for super-stardom, I can say that I’m ready for anything. I feel like I’ve mastered so many stages in my life and the cool thing is, I don’t see that energy changing anything.
Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.
Adrien BrodyAdrien Brody If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine Two words that will change your life…. Yes Lord!
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
Adriaan KortlandtAdriaan Kortlandt ..Science is changing. God’s Word does not change!
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
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