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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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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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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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