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
- Life
- Long
- Space
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
- People
- Bad
- Mother
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Og Mandino
- May
- Service
- Better
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Harrison Ford
- School
- Word
- Performance
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
- People
- Work
- Believe
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai
- Reason
- Poet
- Himself