Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExerciseYouHangThingsDancers

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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I try to make things that are not elitist.

Amanda de Cadenet

TryThingsMakeElitist

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

Statik Selektah

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I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,' but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, 'Man, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to pay these bills.' So you owe a million dollars. 'I can pay that.' OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. 'But I didn't do nothin'!'

Sinbad

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Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable.

Travis Fimmel

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I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.

Rivers Cuomo

WorldSorryQuestionsYouPersonal

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

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My husband loves having his own room.

Lisa Jewell

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I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

David Souter

PeopleStartThinkThinkingBetter

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

Brie Larson

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I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

Ariel Rechtshaid

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

William Temple

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