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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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Friendship
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Medication
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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