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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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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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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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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 am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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 have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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