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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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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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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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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 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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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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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 never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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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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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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