Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
