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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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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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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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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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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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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 never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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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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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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