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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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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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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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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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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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