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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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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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