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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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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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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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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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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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