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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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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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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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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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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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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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