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Academic Inspirational Quotes (4226)

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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
Anna Deavere Smith
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
Anna Deavere Smith
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
Anna Deavere Smith
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith
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