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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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 know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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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 think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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