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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 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 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 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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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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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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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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 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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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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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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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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 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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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