You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
BEATRICE WOODI owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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 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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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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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