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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
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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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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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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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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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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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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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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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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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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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Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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