"I am interested in personal stories because that's……" — Anna Deavere Smith
"I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt."
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85 Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith has 85 quotes on this site.
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Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
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I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.
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The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are…
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession.…
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Art simply can’t be stopped.
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would…
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way…
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Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going…
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Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is…
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught…
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More Expressive Quotes
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one of 139 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
— Kris Allen
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
— Charles Darwin
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
— Jane Smiley
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C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
— Jamie Zawinski
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other…
— Robert Burns
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He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a…
— Unknown Author
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
— Simon Pegg
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I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm…
— Michael Jackson
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My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same…
— John Cassavetes
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