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Anna Deavere Smith
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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.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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I write plays about big, intense subjects.
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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom – the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
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I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
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I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
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Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
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We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
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I'm interested when things are upside down – because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
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Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
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Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
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Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.
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Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
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When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
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