Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

Jeremy Rifkin

TechnologyNewUnderstandDNANeeds

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

Anderson Cooper

LearningFeelLearnImproveStill

I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.

Meghan Daum

WorkLovedLikeAboutLotAlexander

Unlike many other startup processes, Customer Development is deep, detailed, and rigorous.

Steve Blank

DeepCustomerDevelopmentProcesses

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

Sophie Hannah

TogetherPainPeopleMoreOwnKeep

When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.

Roisin Murphy

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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Mikhail Bakunin

SlaveryTurnStateDominationThen

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

Miranda Lambert

CrazyPromiseAgainCurrently

I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.

Jason McCoy

HatTruckDriveFarmWearCowboy

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.

Joseph Stiglitz

WorldGameRealityAmericaStronger

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

Chris D'Elia

PeopleStorySomeonePlayGoMean

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

Chelsea Peretti

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