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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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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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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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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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 have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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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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I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
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Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
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There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
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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.
