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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 know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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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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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'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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