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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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Actor
Actress
Film Actor
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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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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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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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.
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