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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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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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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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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 think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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 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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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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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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