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Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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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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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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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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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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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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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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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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