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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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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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 call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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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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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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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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