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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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Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
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Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.
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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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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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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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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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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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