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Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life White My Own Own Frequently

I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.

Fight Go Inside Joke Danger Because

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

John M. Grunsfeld

People Earth NASA Try Visionary

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Beauty Ideas Values Creating New

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Great Quality People Me Revenge

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

Home People Me Know Sitting Right

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Imagination People Write Up Things

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

New York Me Doing New First Up

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

People Ideas Think Say Want Okay

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

Mary Ellen Mark

Photograph Just Interested Makes

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

Day New Irony Bring Presidency Each

President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have it that way; if he could do something as a complete surprise, that was his preference.

Surprise Way President Never Going

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

History Great Art Painting You Know

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