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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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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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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 interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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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 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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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