Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'
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Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
