Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.

Jillian Michaels

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Robert Smithson

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So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

Mia Goth

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When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

Steven Pinker

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Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Tom Rath

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All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

RuPaul

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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

Lucinda Williams

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I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it was good for me to get away after a full season... In those days, I don't think anyone ever got too complacent.

Bobby Doerr

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Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

Brie Larson

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To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Brian Setzer

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In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

August Wilson

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I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

Nushrat Bharucha

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