Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

John Ratzenberger

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Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.

Robbie Robertson

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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

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I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.

Mike Huckabee

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There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Michelle Dean

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I used to like studying a lot.

Juan Manuel Marquez

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We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.

Dianne Feinstein

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I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

Chris Hillman

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I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

Christoph Waltz

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I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

Connie Nielsen

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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Clara Hughes

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I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.

Ashton Irwin

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