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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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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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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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