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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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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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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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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 call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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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.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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