Beatrice Wood Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
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When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
