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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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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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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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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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 we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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