The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
BEATRICE WOODAnd then a great thing in my life was going to India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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