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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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 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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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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.
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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