Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being unconventional.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
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I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
