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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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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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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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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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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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Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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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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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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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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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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Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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When I was a kid, my grandfather said that if you say a word often enough, it becomes you. Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
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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 have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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