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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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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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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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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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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 am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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