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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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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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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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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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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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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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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.
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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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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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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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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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 call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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