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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• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

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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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• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

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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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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

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• I used to take life so seriously; I got so stressed.

  

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• Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

  

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• The greatest threat of all to their identity, and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge, lumbering creatures and destroying any last small hope that any horse tribe could ever be restored to its traditional life. There was no such thing as a horse Indian without a buffalo herd. Such an Indian had no identity at all.

  

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

  

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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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Strong