"Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write……" — Anna Deavere Smith
"Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now."
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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 Contemporary Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
— Orlando Bloom
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
— Bono
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
— Geraldine Brooks
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary…
— Joseph Campbell
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
— Michael N. Castle
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
— Thomas Cochrane
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
— Francesca Annis
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
— June Jordan
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