And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOODI owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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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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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You can’t change the world, you can only change 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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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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 owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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