Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
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I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
