Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

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• I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
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  • Music
  • Luxury

• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Mobile Phones

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
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• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
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• It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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  • Israel

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
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• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
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• Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
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• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
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• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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  • Help
  • Blessed

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
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  • Time
  • Work

• We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Democracy

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
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  • Gucci

• Podcasts are hard! I mean, you gotta get the microphones and all these things... there's a lot going on there. I never really realized how much goes into producing things till I did 'Gay of Thrones.'

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
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• I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
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