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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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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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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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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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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 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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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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