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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 am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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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 my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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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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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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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