Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
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I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
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In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
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The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
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All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.
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I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
