Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
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We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
