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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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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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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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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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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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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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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?
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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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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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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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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