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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources 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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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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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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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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 happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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