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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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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'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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