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Art simply can’t be stopped.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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 happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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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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