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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Believe America You Look Back Know

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Memories Time Parents Gentleman Old

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis.

Jill Soloway

Be Kind Men Yourself Someone Wish

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

Great Book Used Marry Movie Novel

My mother was the center of the family.

John Major

Family Mother Center

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

John Schlesinger

Me Organization Way Director Him

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

John Piper

Rise Rhetoric Race Things Give Like

I always wanted to teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

Teach Always Wanted

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

Dennis Rodman

Personality Die Person Young Like

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Tim Heidecker

Funny Ideas Out Come Just Most

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

Rene Russo

Mother Age Sister Small Late Lived

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

Marina Abramovic

People Singing Evening House Dream

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

Gus Van Sant

You Know Never Right Because Get