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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 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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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 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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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