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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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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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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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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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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 mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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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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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely it is not. It is very hard work.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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