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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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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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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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