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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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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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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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My job in my work is not to acquire power it's to question power.
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We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I am not myself I am the potential of myself.
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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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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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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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