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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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Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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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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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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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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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
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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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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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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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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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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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