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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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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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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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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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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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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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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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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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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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