Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.
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The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
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The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
