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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
Academic
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
University Teacher
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Anna Smith
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Hopeful
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Confidence

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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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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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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 happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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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 am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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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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