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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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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.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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