Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
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I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.
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Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
