Top 36 Beatrice Wood Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Beatrice Wood

#1. And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

#2. I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

#3. I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

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#4. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

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

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#7. I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

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#8. I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

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

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#10. I was in a convent for a year.

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#11. I owe it all to chocolate and young men.

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

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#13. And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

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#14. Celibacy is exhausting.

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#15. 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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#16. I'm not too interested in books about India.

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

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

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

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#25. 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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#26. I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

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