Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.
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The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.
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Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
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I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It's kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don't have anything holding me back. I don't have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I'll go. But I've lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.
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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
