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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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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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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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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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 remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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