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'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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People are quite frequently eccentric.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.
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Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
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I want to win a ring. I want to have an opportunity to get back to the Finals, but I just have to take it one day at a time, and understand that it can happen -- and I always believe it. Once I stop believing the goal can be accomplished, there is no need to keep dressing up every night. All that matters is us getting into the playoffs, because then, anything can happen.
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Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
