Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
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People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
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In the denial of disorder there is order.
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It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
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In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
