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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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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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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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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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