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Each person has a literature inside them.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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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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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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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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 think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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