Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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We must never bend too much.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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Digital is not about putting up your story on the web. It's about a fundamental redrawing of journalists' relationship with our audience, how we think about our readers, our perception of our role in society, our status.
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You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.
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If there is a future, it will be Green.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
