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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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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 love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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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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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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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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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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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 what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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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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