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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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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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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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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'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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 see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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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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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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