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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.
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.
Anna Deavere Smith
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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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 call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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