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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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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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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.
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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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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
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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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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 am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators the haute couture of language.
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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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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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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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I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
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