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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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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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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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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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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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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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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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