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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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