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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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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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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So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
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I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't.
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I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.
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I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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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.
