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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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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 mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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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 am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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 have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith
If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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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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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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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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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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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