Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Jo Nesbo

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The advantage of using airships in remote areas with little road infrastructure to support development is clear. Airships could ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to remote communities.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

John Dryden

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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Max Lerner

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I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

Angelina Jolie

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It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Amanda Lindhout

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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

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I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

Miguel Cabrera

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Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

Jason Flemyng

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I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Josh Brolin

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'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Craig Bruce

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To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

William Hague

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