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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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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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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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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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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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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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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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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.
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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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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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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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