Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Think
  • Know
  • Hero

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Soul
  • Building
  • Smell

• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Early

• The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • American
  • America
  • Risk

• Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Space

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Conqueror

• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Important
  • Long
  • Business

• My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Long
  • Why
  • Book

• The first ghosts trembled with hope, and their excitement passed back like a ripple over the long line behind them, young children and aged parents alike looking up and ahead with delight and wonder as the first stars they had seen for centuries shone through into their poor starved eyes.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Long
  • Real
  • Intimacy