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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
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.
Lady Gaga -
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
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.
Randi Weingarten -
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
Kapil Dev -
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Ice Cube -
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.
Karan Johar -
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.
Valerie Plame -
I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
Yami Gautam -
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.
Kate Micucci -
I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
Kate Micucci
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney -
One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
M. H. Abrams -
Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.
Tawakkol Karman -
No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).
Amitabh Bachchan -
Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
Kim Young-sam -
You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
Patti Scialfa
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Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.
Kurt Sutter -
Too many kings can ruin an army.
Homer -
I'm mainstream.
The Weeknd -
It doesn't take a lot of research to realize that the human eye is drawn to attractive things. So the better looking your LinkedIn profile is - meaning professional and complete - the more qualified you'll appear to your audience and the more interested people will be to check out your site.
Lewis Howes -
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.
Evelyn Underhill -
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
Anna Deavere Smith