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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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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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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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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 that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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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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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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 am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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