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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.
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 say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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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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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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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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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 am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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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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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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 think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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