You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOODAnd then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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 only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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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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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, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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