Beatrice Wood Quotes

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Beatrice Wood

Profession : Artist

Birth : March 3, 1893

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.

Beatrice Wood

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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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

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I was in a convent for a year.

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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

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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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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

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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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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

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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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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

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I'm not too interested in books about India.

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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

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Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

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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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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

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