Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Anna Deavere Smith

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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Up
- World
- Good
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Park Chan-wook
- People
- Opinion
- Violence
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

J. L. Austin
- Words
- Vague
- Properly
A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

Laura Linney
- Life
- Why
- Pretty
We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

Octavia Spencer
- Women
- Support
- Decision
There is no diplomacy like candor.

E. V. Lucas
- Like
- Diplomacy
- Candor