Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.
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You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.
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There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
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I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
