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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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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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