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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes 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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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