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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 have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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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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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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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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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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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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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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Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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