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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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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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