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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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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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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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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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