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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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 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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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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 don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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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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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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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