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I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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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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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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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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Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
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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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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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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 think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
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