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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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 am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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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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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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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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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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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