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.Anna Deavere Smith
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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.
Walter Lippmann -
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.
Natasha Trethewey -
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino -
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.
Malcolm Wilson -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
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.
Dan Colen
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
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.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Saint Basil -
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.
Garrison Keillor
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel -
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.
Garry Trudeau -
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan -
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.
Ibrahim Rugova -
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
Ralph Merkle -
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller
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I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
Billy Eichner -
The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.
David Ignatius -
I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
Action Bronson -
The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.
Jon Jones -
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest Hemingway -
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.
Anna Deavere Smith