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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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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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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
Anna Deavere Smith
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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
Anna Deavere Smith
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.
Anna Deavere Smith
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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