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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
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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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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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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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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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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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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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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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