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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around 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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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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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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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