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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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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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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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