Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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I'm not really a model.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
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No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.
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Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
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I write plays about big, intense subjects.
