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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Smart People Think Country Healthy

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Life Getting Older Mind Ambition Had

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Fire Credit Create Too Much Lights

We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.

Fear Acceptance Fight Game Think

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Work Today Art Think Doing You

Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.

Wealth Reward Find Creation May Us

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

Me Writing Action Think You Find

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Mother Woman Man Baby You Fall

As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.

Plants Result Earth Growing Now

The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mixture of episodic and serialization, you can kind of take the audience on a more interesting journey.

Ronald D. Moore

Journey Interesting Long You Kind

Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain.

Life Love Live Rain Romantic Past

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

People Stupid Learn Comedy Acting

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Evening Clothes More Delicious Most

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