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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.

Beatrice Wood

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
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
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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Mean Thinking Time
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
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
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way

Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.

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