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.

Anna Deavere Smith

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• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

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• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

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• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

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• 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.'

  

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• 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.

  

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• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

  

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• There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.

  

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• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

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• ESPN is a great organization to work for.

  

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• To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
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  • Strong