American - Actress | September 18, 1950 -
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
Anna Deavere Smith
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
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You know, all kinds of people inspire me.
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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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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
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Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
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I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
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I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
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