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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
Beatrice Wood
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Beatrice Wood
Age: 105 †
Born: 1893
Born: March 3
Died: 1998
Died: March 12
Artist
Ceramicist
Designer
Painter
Sculptor
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San Francisco County
California
Lola
Countess Screwvinsky
Beatrice Beato Wood
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Everybody
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Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. 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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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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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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