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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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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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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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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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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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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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