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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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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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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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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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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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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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