Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
BEATRICE WOODOver and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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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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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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