Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Oh, I've got news for youBaby, that I've made plans for twoI guess I'm just a stubborn kind of fellowGot my mind made up to love you.
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
