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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 18, 1950

Topics

Friendship Medication Underrated

There's been so many unbelievable players in Los Angeles, maybe the best of the best.

Best Los Angeles Players Been Many

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Life Getting Older Mind Ambition Had

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

John Lanchester

Book Three Personal Excitement Turn

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Society America Out Left Just Our

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

Black Student Him Same Being Slaves

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

Help You Celebrity Being Use

When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques.

Daily Best Television Phone Know

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

God Sad Tough Thank God Reality Go

It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family.

Family Two Easiest Thing Thing

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

Books Like Most Anybody Afford Them

I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He taught me so much about playing quarterback in the NFL and made me a better football player.

Respect Great Football Me Better

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Gambling Disease Civilized Barbarians

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