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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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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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