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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 simply can’t be stopped.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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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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