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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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