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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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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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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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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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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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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 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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
Anna Deavere Smith
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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