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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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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 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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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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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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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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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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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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 think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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