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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
-
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
-
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
-
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.
-
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
-
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.
-
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
-
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
-
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
-
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.
-
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
-
I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
-
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.
-
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
-
When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
-
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
-
The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.
-
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
-
From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.
-
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.
