Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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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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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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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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I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'
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Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.
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I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.
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At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
