Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't think drums had ever sounded so big until Led Zeppelin's first album.

Jimmy Page

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All the ladies can feel sexy and have fun in my clothing and that makes me feel like I am offering something truly unique to the people who have been gracious enough to show me such love and support over the years.

Jennifer Hudson

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Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

John Darnielle

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I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

Michael Hastings

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.

Ron Johnson

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A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

Michael Pitt

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I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

Jay Hernandez

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Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens

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HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

Craig Ferguson

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All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

Brett Gelman

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