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Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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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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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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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
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President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
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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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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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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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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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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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