Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
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It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
