Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

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• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Political
  • Always

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Never
  • Child
  • Angry

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Economic
  • Performance

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Power
  • Broken

• I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• I want to be inside your heaven.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Heaven

• If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Job