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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Inspire You Know Kinds

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

Words School Poetry Loved Meaning

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

Wife Baseball Me Game Said Over

I always wanted to work on the consumer market; I always wanted to work with people.

Work People Always Market Consumer

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Hope Roads Men Road Earth Said

It's important to spend time with your work. That's when you see it, when you have a feeling.

Work Time You Feeling Important See

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere

Friendship Love Time Stronger Weaker

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

Janine di Giovanni

Time Step Forward Church Back Take

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

I Am Impossible Transportation Ready

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Great Book Atheist Confession Read

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

Wife I Am She Singer Embarrassed

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

People Singing You Know Mean Up

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Work Technology Hope Day Progress

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