Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
Anna Deavere Smith
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I'm a really bad liar.
Daniel Craig
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
Wendy Kopp
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
Katee Sackhoff
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A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.
John Edgar Wideman
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You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.
Mary Doria Russell
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Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.
Norman Cota
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.
Marge Piercy
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
Anna Deavere Smith