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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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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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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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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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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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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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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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