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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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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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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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