Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

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• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Moment

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Violence

• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Finance

• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Will
  • Read
  • Reviews

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • World
  • Way
  • Strange

• Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Once
  • Dive

• After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Marketing
  • Director
  • Project

• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Help
  • Never
  • Champion

• I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Treat
  • Well

• I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Love
  • Father
  • Game

• I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Work Hard

• Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Beautiful
  • Memories
  • Red

• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Family
  • Money
  • Die

• The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Film

• How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Perfect
  • Wonderful

• In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

  

  August Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Black

• The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

  

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Revelation

• I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.

  

  Carlo Alban
  • People
  • Character
  • Feelings

• Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith