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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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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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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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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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 think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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