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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

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.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Myself People Ideas Place Person

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Free Always Because Running

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Love Money Death Joy Anxiety Source

I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

Myself Book Forward Create Lucky

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Work Dog Friend Mother Pet You

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

Live Moment Me Reality Phone Stop

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Moment Writing Doing You Television

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

Michael K. Powell

Community People Media Attention New

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

Work Father Mother Time Child Care

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

Car You Difficult Pretend Very

The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.

Music Time Me Fashion Achieve Group

The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government.

Chelsea Manning

Integrity Government Free Speech

Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

Richard Corliss

Daily Freedom Power Inspire Comedy

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