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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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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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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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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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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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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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