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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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