Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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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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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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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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Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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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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Sex is energy.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.