Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
-
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
-
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
-
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
-
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
-
You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
-
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-
I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
-
I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
-
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
-
I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
-
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
-
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
-
I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
-
Life is never free of contradictions.
-
Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
-
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
-
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
-
I am fine because somebody's opinion can't become my reality.
-
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
