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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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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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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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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 think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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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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