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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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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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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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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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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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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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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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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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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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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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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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