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

Beatrice Wood

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
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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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Life Sex Views
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
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’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
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
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
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 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
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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

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