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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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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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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
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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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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 remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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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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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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