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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 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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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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