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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.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
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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 have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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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 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 think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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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 went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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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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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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